WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:03.359 Latest interview of Elon Musk. If you like this episode, 2 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:05.839 just like Sharreon, follow this podcast. 3 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:12.160 Thank you. Back to the show. All right, welcome to Starbase, Texas. 4 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:22.480 This is a city. 5 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:26.679 It's actually legally a city that, thanks to the hard 6 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:29.480 work of the SpaceX team, we built out of nothing 7 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:35.520 and is now a gigantic rocket manufacturing system. 8 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:38.560 And for people out. 9 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:40.039 There who are curious to see it, we're actually in 10 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:42.560 a public highway so you can come and visit and 11 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:46.039 drive down the road and see the epic hardware. So 12 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:48.840 I think this is the first time that a rocket 13 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:53.399 development program has actually been on a public highway, so 14 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:54.880 you can come and see the epic stuff. 15 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:57.439 We're on it today. 16 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:03.119 To have a sectary of Pete Hexa and much of 17 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:06.040 the senior leadership of the Pentagon here, it's an honor 18 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:08.560 to have them visit. We just did a tour of 19 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:13.079 the factory, and I think this it really helps illustrate 20 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:17.400 how manufacturing and manufacturing at scale is critical to the 21 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:18.560 strength of America. 22 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:24.959 And I'll tell you a little bit just about the 23 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:26.200 purpose of SpaceX. 24 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:34.040 It's like, we want to make star Trek real, Okay, 25 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:40.840 we want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's 26 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:46.719 not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction 27 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:52.799 turns to science fact, and we have spaceships going through space, 28 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:58.840 big spaceships with people going to other planets, going to 29 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:03.640 the Moon, and ultimately going beyond our star system to 30 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:09.360 other star systems where we may meet aliens or discover 31 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:12.719 long dad alien civilizations. I don't know, but we want 32 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:16.840 to go and we want to see what's happening, and 33 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:21.319 we want to have epic futuristic spaceships with lots of 34 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:25.479 people in them, traveling to places we've never been to before. 35 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:31.159 Yeah, that's that's. 36 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:40.199 The goal, and that's what I think the public thinks 37 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:43.960 of when they think of Space Force. So on that note, 38 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.439 I'd like to introduce the Secretary of Ward he Hexap. 39 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:56.039 Thank you, you know, I'm spreciate, thank you very much. 40 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:03.479 How about this Star Trek real star trucks. Yes, appreciate it. 41 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:07.159 I love it. 42 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:10.520 Well, what a tour, What an opportunity to be here 43 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:15.680 at Star Base, Texas with Elon and the SpaceX team. 44 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:19.199 There's nothing like this in America. There's nothing like this 45 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:22.719 in the world. And what you have built and what 46 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:26.120 you will build here is a testament to the strength 47 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:30.080 of American ingenuity and American invention. So I want to 48 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:32.719 thank all of you, all the folks out here for 49 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.479 having us today. Elon, thank you so much for hosting us, 50 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:37.960 for what you've built, for the vision you have for 51 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:41.719 this company, the vision you have for our country, the 52 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:44.080 vision you have for American innovation. 53 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:46.199 I could not think of a. 54 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:50.319 More fitting venue to continue our arsenal a freedom tour 55 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:55.159 and to outline today the future of technological innovation at. 56 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:58.960 The War Department. Those of you here at SpaceX will 57 00:03:58.960 --> 00:03:59.599 appreciate this. 58 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:03.080 Knowing that as World War II was ending, the Secretary 59 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:05.479 of War and Secretary of the Navy wrote to the 60 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:09.919 National Academy of Sciences and declared that scientific research was 61 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:15.879 essential to our national security to ensure continued preparedness. 62 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:18.319 They wrote, the research. 63 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:20.680 Scientists of the United States must be called upon to 64 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:25.439 continue in peacetime some substantial portion that of which they 65 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:29.439 have made so effectively during the stress of the present war. 66 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:34.639 The competitive time element in developing those weapons and tactics 67 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:40.480 may be decisive in future conflicts. You see, those Secretaries 68 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:43.839 of War and Navy many decades ago recognize the importance 69 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:48.319 that innovation and readiness holds for our national security. 70 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:52.480 They knew what was at stake, the very freedoms of 71 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:56.839 the country we hold dear all across the United States. 72 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:03.240 Today, extraordinary innovation is unlocking news abilities for freedom, prosperity, 73 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:06.800 and security. Now, the question before us is not whether 74 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:10.839 or not the most powerful technologies of the century will 75 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:14.079 reinforce free societies. Is it going to reinforce our free societies? 76 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:18.079 Or will that technology be shaped and twisted by malign 77 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:23.680 regimes that seek to use those technologies for control and coercion. 78 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:26.920 You see, over the past several months, I've talked at 79 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.560 length about the challenges we face. 80 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.920 In transforming the War Department to. 81 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:35.600 Address current and future missions, all in service of meeting 82 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:39.639 the deeds of the twenty first century warfire. I'd like 83 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:42.839 to think we've already made dramatic progress in the Pentagon's 84 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:47.279 culture by reviving the warrior ethos, and we're moving out 85 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.720 quickly and transforming our acquisition ecosystem as well. 86 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:53.000 But today is. 87 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.600 About how we supercharge innovation at the word of Department 88 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:58.360 for the era ahead. 89 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:01.199 Innovation is happening at a pace. 90 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:04.279 We can't even foresee, and we need the entire enterprise 91 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:08.360 our enterprise to embrace the urgency required for this moment. 92 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:12.519 Since the end of the Cold War, the defense industrial 93 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:17.439 base in our country has consolidated. This makes it difficult, 94 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:21.720 if not impossible, for new creators of technical innovations to 95 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:26.319 win business at our department. The result is a risk 96 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:30.879 averse culture that prevents us from providing our warfighters with 97 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:34.160 the best resources that America has to offer. 98 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:40.439 That ends today. Simply put, the United. 99 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:44.040 States must win the strategic competition for twenty first century 100 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:52.000 technological supremacy, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, quantum hypersonics, and long 101 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:52.720 range drones. 102 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:55.560 If you talk to Elon Musk long enough, he will 103 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:56.079 tell you. 104 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:59.879 How important hypersonics and long range drones are. 105 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:01.519 Needs one hundred percent correct. 106 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:06.439 Space capabilities, directed energy, and biotechnology. 107 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:08.040 Are the new areas of global competition. 108 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:13.519 The challenge is that our legacy approach to technological development 109 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:19.879 assumes that technology moves in a predictable linear conveyor belt 110 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:23.319 from lab to design to development to prototype to test 111 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:26.800 and qualify a program of record, and can only be 112 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:31.240 provided by a handful of companies that have consolidated dramatically. 113 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.240 Now, while this system provided us with the weapons. 114 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:39.639 That won the Cold War. It is archaic and inconsistent 115 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:43.519 with the novel threat environment that we face today. 116 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:46.600 At its core, this old approach has. 117 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:50.120 The hubrist to assume that you can easily predict the future, 118 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:53.560 that you can foresee how an invention becomes a weapon 119 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:59.399 in eight easy steps, three decades from first discovery. Our 120 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:02.920 system can not keep treating innovation as a decades long 121 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:07.480 one way march that dramatically reduces who and what is 122 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:10.839 able to run the gauntlet at our department to get. 123 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:12.560 The capability to the warfire. 124 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:18.879 Until this administration, the Trump administration, the department's process for 125 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:23.360 fielding new capabilities had become just one more post Cold 126 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:26.560 War peace dividend relic that has not kept up with 127 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:31.160 the times. Worse than that, we've done nothing but add 128 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:36.120 layer upon layer of committees and councils that coordinated but 129 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:41.360 never decided. We created endless projects with no accountable owners. 130 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:44.000 We have high churn with. 131 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:47.120 Little progress and few outputs. That sounds about like the 132 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:52.559 exact opposite of SpaceX. We treated innovation as a box 133 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:55.799 to check, not an outcome to deliver. In short, when 134 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:59.399 it comes to our current threat environment, we are playing 135 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:06.240 a danger escape with potentially fatal consequences. We need innovation 136 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:10.399 to come from anywhere and evolve with speed and purpose. 137 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:15.919 You see, America's open scientific community is an advantage authoritarian 138 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:19.840 regimes cannot replicate. They can read our scientific papers and 139 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:21.960 copy our invention or distill. 140 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:23.200 Our al Ai. 141 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:27.000 Models, but they cannot replicate a culture like this, one 142 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:29.480 of opened and distributed research. 143 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:31.919 We need to be blunt here. 144 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.399 We can no longer afford to wait a decade for 145 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:40.960 our legacy prime contractors to deliver the next perfect system, 146 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:44.519 only to find that it's delivered years behind schedule and cost. 147 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:50.000 Ten times what it should. Winning requires a new playbook. 148 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:56.399 Elon wrote it with his algorithm question every requirement, Delete 149 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:01.000 the dumb ones, and accelerate like hell. That's why I 150 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.639 want to make clear across the War Department and for 151 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:07.679 our partners in the private sector, that our Undersecretary of 152 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:11.440 War for Research and Engineering, Emil Michael, right here in 153 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:16.360 the front row is the War Department's single Chief Technology 154 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:20.360 Officer one CTO for the entire enterprise. 155 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:22.039 Novel concept. 156 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:25.879 As the sole CTO, E Meal will set the technical direction, 157 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:30.759 lead the innovation ecosystem that will welcome progress from anywhere 158 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:35.080 it resides, and he'll tell me face to face every 159 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:38.720 day and frankly, whether we are gaining or losing the 160 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:40.759 technology and innovation competition. 161 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:44.080 He'll have the decision authority and will lead through. 162 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:48.399 Rigorous evaluation with a focus on real, measurable outcomes. 163 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:51.360 Now, Congress, and we have a member many members of 164 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:53.559 Congress with us here today, will be our partner in this. 165 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:57.639 By affirming the under Secretary's role as the department's CTO, 166 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:02.200 we're carrying out the core mission for that Congress assigned 167 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:03.639 in statute. 168 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:04.919 The last Defense Bill. 169 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:08.399 Expanded the CTO's authorities, including the power to direct military 170 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:14.200 departments and other components to align around clear innovative outcomes. 171 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:18.000 We will use them to deliver those outcomes. 172 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:20.679 With speed and urgency. 173 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:26.080 An empowered CTO will inject a disruptive mindset directly into 174 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:29.639 our systems, directing the power of America's world leading scientists 175 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:33.879 and entrepreneurs, our cutting edge labs, the tech ecosystem, and 176 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:38.600 our capital markets to build what the warfighter needs, but 177 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:40.799 to do so better, faster and cheaper. 178 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:44.759 And Emil is the right man to do it. You see, 179 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:47.360 this isn't about military structure. This is about building an 180 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:49.120 innovation pipeline that. 181 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:54.879 Cuts through the overgrown bureaucratic underbrush and clears away the 182 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:57.039 debris elon. 183 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:01.240 Style, preferably with a chainsaw, and to do so at 184 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:04.000 speed and urgency that meets the moment. 185 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:08.360 As I've said repeatedly to every audience, the President of 186 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:11.360 the United States and I have the backs of our 187 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:16.080 warfighters who have to make split second life and death 188 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:19.840 decisions on the battlefield. And I want this audience to 189 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:24.279 know that we also have the backs of innovators who 190 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:30.639 share that very same urgency. American taxpayers, especially those parents 191 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:33.879 whose sons and daughters have answered the call to serve 192 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:38.600 I swore in ten more today demand, and I demand, 193 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:42.360 and we demand that we arm our warfighters with overwhelming 194 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:47.639 and lethal technology right now, not a decade from now. 195 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:50.720 In modern warfare, the fastest. 196 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:54.679 Innovator and iterator will be the winner, and no one 197 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:58.600 can out innovate an American entrepreneur who has been liberated 198 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:02.320 from the constrains of stifling bureaucracy. 199 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:07.080 That old era ends today. 200 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:13.240 We are done running a peacetime science fair while our 201 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:17.440 potential adversaries are running a wartime arms race. 202 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:19.720 Right now. 203 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:23.639 From garage startups to factory floors to boardrooms across our nation. 204 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:28.159 The question of how to harness innovation coming out of America's. 205 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:30.600 AI ecosystem is front and center, and rightfully. 206 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:34.240 So, because it has the potential to disrupt and transform 207 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:39.720 every area of human endeavor. The same is true in 208 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:44.279 the Department of War. President Trump's AI Executive Order spells 209 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:47.919 out our approach succinctly. It is the policy of the 210 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:52.159 United States to sustain and enhance America's global AI dominance 211 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:59.840 in defense of human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security. That, 212 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:02.919 ladies and gentlemen, is the War Department's mission. 213 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:05.759 We must ensure that America's. 214 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:10.200 Military AI dominance so that no adversary can exploit that 215 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:14.840 same technology to hold our national security interests for our 216 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:22.159 citizens at risk. America first in every domain. Last month, 217 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:22.679 I took. 218 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:24.440 The first step toward changing how the. 219 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.639 Department does business with frontier AI technologies when we announce 220 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:32.440 the rollout of Genai with our partners from Google, and 221 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:34.480 I want to thank the Google team for leaning forward 222 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:37.120 and making the investment to get their Gemini app to 223 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:38.639 about three million. 224 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:39.679 Users in the War Department. 225 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:44.440 But today we're excited to announce the next frontier AI 226 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:49.120 model company to join genai dot MIL and that is 227 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:53.919 GROC from Xai, which will go live later this month. 228 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.559 So I want to thank you Elon and your incredible 229 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:00.679 team for leaning forward with us on as well. 230 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:03.639 Very soon we will have the world's leading. 231 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:09.120 AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department. 232 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:14.960 Long overdue to further that, Today, at my direction, we're 233 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.600 executing an AI acceleration strategy that will extend our lead 234 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:20.919 in military AI established. 235 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:22.320 During President Trump's first term. 236 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:28.879 This strategy will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus on investments, 237 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:33.159 and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead 238 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:36.519 in military AI and that it grows more dominant. 239 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:39.519 Into the future. In short, we will win this race 240 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:41.000 by becoming an. 241 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:45.600 AI first war fighting force across all domains, from the 242 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:48.679 back offices of the Pentagon to the tactical edge on 243 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:53.120 the front line. The catalyst for this acceleration will be 244 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:57.360 seven pace setting projects focused on mission. 245 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:00.519 Threads across war fighting, intelligence. 246 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:06.000 And enterprise missions, each with a single accountable leader, aggressive timelines, 247 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:11.240 and measurable outcomes that answer a familiar question, Elon, what 248 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:18.120 have you accomplished this week. This is the execution standard 249 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:22.759 for AI first transformation. Each of the seven pace setting 250 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:27.639 projects will use the following model, one owner who reports 251 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.039 monthly on their progress. 252 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:30.679 These projects will not be run. 253 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:33.639 In a vacuum, but will work directly with warfighters and 254 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:38.559 transition partners to ensure we incorporate real time operational feedback. 255 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:43.960 We expect rapid iterations with failure accelerating the learning curve. 256 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:48.519 These are not science projects, They are not governance boards. 257 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:51.960 They are the execution standard for the entire department. 258 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:57.039 We will not win the future by sprinkling AI onto 259 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:58.879 old tactics. 260 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:02.799 Like digital pixie dust. We will win by discovering entirely 261 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:04.160 new ways of fighting. 262 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:10.359 That's why we will run continuous experimentation campaigns, quarterly force 263 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:15.799 unforced combat labs with AI coordinated swarms, agent based cyber defense, 264 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:21.759 and distributed command and control, pushing the envelope learning from 265 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:26.519 failure at every stop, which is exactly what this place does. 266 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:29.279 You see, our department doesn't accept failure in the past, 267 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:31.279 and so we never fail, which means we never learn. 268 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:36.920 We're flipping that dynamic. Before talking about the new rules 269 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:38.759 of the game, let me talk about a little bit 270 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:40.960 more about our new team, because no game can be won. 271 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:43.359 Without the right team, and we're proud to announce that 272 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:44.839 mister Cameron Stanley has been. 273 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:50.720 Appointed the new Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer CEAO 274 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:53.680 of our War Department. CAM will be leading a new team, 275 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:57.640 many of whom have forgone, thank you, or left lucrative 276 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:02.039 careers at pioneer companies such as AWS, Data, Bricks, Palenteered 277 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:03.839 Meta to join the fight. 278 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:06.240 This team will not only. 279 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:09.839 Provide a catalyst for change in this department, but will 280 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:12.119 also act, we believe, as a. 281 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:14.039 Magnet for other talented members of the. 282 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:16.799 Tech community who want to join us in doing the 283 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:20.880 mission focused work to protect our great Republic. 284 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:23.720 So let's talk about the new rules. 285 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:30.799 First, Speed, speed wins, speed dominates. 286 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:32.920 Our enterprise currently. 287 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:38.079 Operates on staffing and committee cycles measured in months and years, 288 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:39.160 and that's unacceptable. 289 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:42.000 Military AI is going to be a race for the 290 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:43.839 foreseeable future where the risks. 291 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:48.240 To US national security of moving too slowly outweigh the 292 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:53.079 impacts of imperfect alignment. To do this, Cam and his 293 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:58.400 team at CDAO will define AI deployment velocity metrics for 294 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:01.200 all the pace setting projects in the next thirty days 295 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:06.039 and report at least monthly after that. These will become 296 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:10.200 the new benchmarks for programs across the department. 297 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:16.480 Second, bureaucratic blockers. If you work with Elon, you know 298 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:18.920 he finds the blockers and you remove them. 299 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.680 We will take a wartime approach to people and policies 300 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:25.599 that block this progress. 301 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:29.000 You want to block to work somewhere else. 302 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:33.960 Barriers to data sharing, authority to operate or ato's test 303 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:38.720 and evaluation, and contracting are now treated as operational risks, 304 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:42.000 not simply bureaucratic inconveniences. 305 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:47.039 We are blowing up these barriers. That's why today, at 306 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:48.039 my direction, I'm. 307 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:53.119 Establishing a barrier removal SWAT team under RNE with the 308 00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:56.680 authority to waive non statutory requirements and escalate to our 309 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:01.559 great Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg, anything that slows down the 310 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:03.680 acceleration of AI capabilities. 311 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:06.880 Third compute resource. 312 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:10.400 We will invest heavily in expanding our access to AI 313 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:14.720 compute from data centers to the tactical edge, and will 314 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:17.680 tap into hundreds of billions of dollars in private. 315 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:19.440 Capital flowing into American AI. 316 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:24.119 President Trump's executive order has directed us to build data 317 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:27.799 centers on military land and to work with the Department 318 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:30.680 of Energy to ensure that we dramatically increase the number 319 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:35.440 and breadth of resources needed to power this computing infrastructure. 320 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:38.680 We will work together with our partners at Google and 321 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:44.000 AWS and Oracle and SpaceX, Microsoft and others on these initiatives. 322 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:50.119 Fourth pillar, especially in this room, you'll understand it is talent. 323 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:54.559 We will use every hiring and pay authority available to 324 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:58.880 us to bring the best American technical talent and reward 325 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:02.160 effective AI train informations by our workforce. 326 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:03.359 We're going to. 327 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:06.799 Heavily leverage President Trump's Tech Force initiative to bring in 328 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:11.319 the best and brightest from industry and academia, with people 329 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:14.960 like Elon David Sachs, Emil Mike and others from the 330 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:19.559 entrepreneurial and business world already in government, we have shown 331 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:23.079 that we can and that we must enlist the world's 332 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:31.400 leading talent in this cause. Fifth Responsible AI. Today, I 333 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:36.119 want to clarify what responsible AI means at the Department 334 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:41.599 of War. Gone are the days of equitable AI and 335 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:46.200 other DEI and social justice infusions that constrain and confuse 336 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:47.519 our employment. 337 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:48.279 Of this technology. 338 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:54.039 Effective immediately responsible AI at the War Department means objectively 339 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:59.279 truthful AI capabilities employed securely and within the laws governing 340 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:01.240 the activities of the Department. 341 00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:05.000 We will not employ AI models that won't allow you 342 00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:06.559 to fight wars. 343 00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:13.160 We will judge AI models on this standard alone, factually accurate, 344 00:22:13.240 --> 00:22:19.000 mission relevant, without ideological constraints that limit lawful military applications. 345 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:23.559 Department of War AI will not be woke. It will 346 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:28.039 work for US. We're building war ready weapons and systems, 347 00:22:28.119 --> 00:22:35.039 not chatbots for an Ivy League faculty Lounge six. And finally, 348 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:38.720 data AI is only as good as the data that 349 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:42.119 feeds it, and the US military has an asymmetric data 350 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:45.759 advantage from two decades of military and intelligence operations that 351 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:49.319 no other military in the world can replicate. But right 352 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:52.960 now we are under utilizing this advantage. Too much of 353 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:57.599 our data is stranded. It's stuck in bespoke program databases, 354 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:01.440 locked behind Title ten or two, Title fifty stove pipes, 355 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:05.720 invisible to operators, engineers, and industry who could help us 356 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:10.200 exploit it with winning speed and scale. And that's why today, 357 00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:13.960 at my direction, CDO will exercise its full authority to 358 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:19.680 enforce the DOW Data Decrees and make all appropriate data 359 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:25.640 available across federated IT systems for AI exploitation, including mission 360 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:32.079 systems across every service and component. Each service secretary and 361 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:35.720 component head will submit catalogs of their current data assets. 362 00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:37.880 To the CDO within thirty days. 363 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:41.759 Denials of data access request will be reported to the 364 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:43.680 CTO within seven. 365 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:48.480 Days, and they better have a good justification today. 366 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:52.839 I'm also directing the Undersecretary for Intelligence and Security, Brad Hansel, 367 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:57.400 to ensure appropriate data from across our intelligence enterprise receives 368 00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:00.480 the same treatment and can be fully levered to war 369 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:04.799 fighting capability, development and operational advantage. AI is only as 370 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:07.440 good as the data that it receives, and we're going 371 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:11.319 to make sure that it's there. Persistent barriers to data 372 00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:14.519 access will be escalated to the Deputy Secretary of War 373 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:19.279 for resolution with authority to reassign or terminate personnel or 374 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:23.880 withhold funding from non compliant activities within the statutory limits. 375 00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:26.039 We'll be clear here. 376 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:30.359 As I said, data hoarding is now a national security risk, 377 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:35.119 and we will treat it that way. 378 00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:38.039 AI is an important part of the future. 379 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:41.160 But here's another truth that we've ignored for too long. 380 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:46.079 Beyond AI, we've treated every other kind of innovation as if. 381 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:48.720 They're the same as you know they're not. 382 00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:55.400 We need to break down unnecessary barriers to rapid technological development, adoption, 383 00:24:55.640 --> 00:24:59.480 and transition. Some of you will remember this a generation 384 00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:02.920 to Goo. One of my predecessors, in a dinner speech 385 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:08.039 to industry, now infamously known as the Last Supper, advocated 386 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:13.440 for the consolidation of our defense industrial base. This consolidation 387 00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:17.960 created a closed innovation ecosystem dominated by just a handful 388 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:23.640 of prime contractors. The results have been characterized by soaring costs, 389 00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:30.279 sluggish delivery, and stagnant innovation. That's what President Trump's recent 390 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:33.720 Executive Order on the Defense Industrial Base and Defense Companies 391 00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:35.519 seeks to address. 392 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:38.960 It makes crystal clear. 393 00:25:39.319 --> 00:25:42.400 That the priority of the legacy prime contractors must be 394 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:48.720 our nation's national security, not the next earnings call. That 395 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:53.240 means less focus on stock buybacks and more investment on 396 00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:55.759 the men and women on the factory floor. 397 00:25:56.839 --> 00:25:59.079 It means less stockholder. 398 00:25:58.519 --> 00:26:05.640 Dividends and more investment in infrastructure, plant and equipment. Today, 399 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:08.839 that old era comes to an end. 400 00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:11.279 The Department of. 401 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:15.720