"You cannot start a new business right now and reach any kind of scale working with the Department of Defense. Period," Anduril's Matthew Steckman told a defense conference, weeks after nearly $1 billion contract win.
“I've concluded, consistent with the analysis, that we need an able force of over 500 ships," the Navy's top admiral told attendees at the West 2022 conference in San Diego.
“I think that’s a common understanding from those that have been in the Pentagon – We don’t in all cases have the data we need or if we do, it’s not the quality that we need or timeliness or some other facets,” Randal Cole, deputy chief data officer, said. “And so I think that is an ongoing challenge.”
Navy officials insist that Project Overmatch is critical for JADC2 and the future fight, but the effort's chief said beyond an analogy to Yelp the secrecy is intentional.