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Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy with Palmer Luckey

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Don’t trust a customer when they tell you what the solution is

The Department of Defense needs to enable a large pool of technology companies to scale into production and succeed, not just a few, but many./nWe need to build how weapons systems are built based on software, not hardware, taking a softwarefirst approach to how war is waged./nWe need to understand what problems we're trying to solve and not necessarily hold companies to specific requirements./nWe often say in Andral that you should always trust the customer when they tell you about their problems, but you should never trust them when they tell you what the solution is.

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