🇺🇸 We are launching the Dynamic Technology Defense Reform Initiative to rebuild America's defense industrial base and secure the future of our national security through innovation. Dozens of voices from across the tech and defense ecosystems stand with us, believing that the United States faces a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reform defense procurement and reshape how we defend our nation. The Pentagon has invested trillions of dollars, yet our fleet is shrinking, weapons deliveries are delayed and over budget, and our forces lack the tools they need to fight and win. In conflicts with adversaries, we can run out of critical munitions within a week. This is happening because decades ago, the Pentagon abandoned market principles in favor of central planning, five-year plans, and thousands of pages of regulations. This decision eliminated the profit motive, penalized innovation, rewarded bureaucracy, and drove entrepreneurs and venture-backed companies out of the defense industrial base. We believe the only way forward is to restore market principles and open defense procurement to any American company capable of delivering. The reforms we advocate for in this initiative are clear and actionable: - Make commercial solutions the default option for defense acquisitions - Empower leaders to procure products that meet mission needs, not pre-planned products from years ago - Reform legacy performance-based rules to reward performance, not incumbency - Expand the definition of non-traditional contractors to enable startups to serve the warfighter - Align acquisition incentives with speed, efficiency, and accountability These changes will unleash innovation, expand the defense industrial base, and return the United States to the system that helped win World War II and established technological superiority during the Cold War. We do this because production is deterrence. Reform is survival. The United States must build a new defense system that rewards innovation, advances rapidly, and ensures peace through strength.