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- [Man] We're in a competition.

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We're leaving the period
of the department's history

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where we'd been focusing
solely on violent extremists.

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- [Man] State competition has returned.

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- [Man] They're doing things.

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- [Journalist] China has
had a strong presence

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in Africa for years.

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- [NBC Journalist] Vladimir Putin testing

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a new intercontinental missile.

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- [CNN Journalist] This
warning about Iran.

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- [Euro News Journalist]
Locked in a bitter stand-off

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over the now scrapped nuclear deal.

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(missile launching)

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- [Journalist] And so if
conflict in the future

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is going to be trans-regional
that's gonna extend beyond

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the current combat and
commander boundaries and maps.

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- [Man] How do we have the right policies

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and the right directives,

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leveraging the right
acquisition authorities,

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and unleash this talent
at the hard problems

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that our force and our nation faces today?

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- [Woman] Over the past three decades,

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our adversaries have studied
how the United States

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and its allies,

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- [Man] organize, train,
and equip our forces.

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- [Man] It won't be
tanks, planes, and ships

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that are the central differentiator

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in tomorrow's conflict.

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That conflict's going to be data-centric.

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- [Man] They've learned how we fight,

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and they've invested heavily
in adaptive technologies

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designed to exploit our vulnerabilities.

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- [Interviewer] AI.
- [Man] Yup.

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- [Interviewer] Is that,
talk to me, is that?

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- [Man] It's scary.

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- [Man] Artificial
intelligence has the capability

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to significantly speed our OODA loops,

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tactical, operational, and strategic.

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- [Man] So we have to adopt

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these commercial developmental tools.

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- [Man] Force us to change our approach

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to how we would then do acquisition.

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- [Man] Drive a consistent demand signal

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to our industry teammates.

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Does what you're offering
connect across the network?

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Air, land, space, sea,
and cyber-operations,

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occurring simultaneously
to achieve objectives.

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- [Man] In the early days of the Cold War,

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the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, and

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- [Woman] space contributions
continue to expand.

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- [Man] We must move
fast, and we must be bold

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in fielding space
war-fighting capabilities.

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- [Woman] We must prepare
to protect our interests.

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- [Man] We are the best
in the world at space.

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With the establishment
of U.S. Space Command,

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we're even better.

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- [Man] We're gonna have to
be able to keep building,

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keep upgrading, keep sustaining,

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faster than any adversary we have.

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- [Man] An incredible
choreography, all coming together.

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- [Man] Get back to our roots

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as being a rapid builder
and fielder of things.

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- [Man] As members of the DOD,

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- [Man] of the Department
of the Air Force,

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- [Woman] we must be ready for
the great power competition.

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- [Man] as a fully-networked force

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in a data-dense environment
in a digital age.

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- [Man] With a national defense strategy,

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- [Man] and efforts of our airmen,

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- [Man] and I'm seeing that
activity across the Air Force,

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- [Woman] we will compete, deter,

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- [Man] and win.