04
October 2023
Past Event
Integrating a Force for Twenty-First-Century Deterrence and Warfighting

Event will also air live on this page.
 
Inquiries: mdewitt@hudson.org 

Integrating a Force for Twenty-First-Century Deterrence and Warfighting

Past Event
Hudson Institute
October 04, 2023
(Lockheed Martin)
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(Lockheed Martin)
04
October 2023
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.
 
Inquiries: mdewitt@hudson.org 

Speakers:
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Bryan Clark

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

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Jim Taiclet

Chairman, President, and CEO, Lockheed Martin

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The United States military faces multiple intensifying challenges. China, a peer adversary, has eroded the US military’s post–Cold War dominance and threatens the sovereignty and economic prosperity of the US and its allies and partners around the globe. Facing flat budgets, the Pentagon is pursuing resilience, flexibility, interoperability, and affordable scale to gain an edge. Far from the exquisite precision strikes of Operation Desert Storm, US forces will need to assemble kill chains in the field from a changing variety of commercial and military systems to undermine enemy decision-making and sustain a potential protracted fight.

In order to implement the interoperability and command and control that the US military needs for a more adaptable and resilient force, leaders from the Department of Defense and its industry partners will have to cooperate. Join Hudson Senior Fellow Bryan Clark and Lockheed Martin Chairman, President, and CEO Jim Taiclet for a conversation about how the Pentagon and its suppliers can work together to overcome these challenges and ensure US forces can continue to dissuade aggression.

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