SecDef Hegseth’s message to defense-industry executives: Move faster and invest more, or we just might make you. President Trump’s Pentagon chief spoke for more than an hour to a packed auditorium at the National War College on Friday, a gathering Hegseth himself described as an opportunity to look those very executives “in the eye.”

Chief takeaways: Hegseth unveiled a slew of policy changes intended to replace his department’s Cold War-era acquisition processes with ones that value speed over rigid requirements. But perhaps most notably, he told defense companies to put more of their own money into developing military technology, or take their business elsewhere, Defense One ’s Lauren C. Williams reported from Fort McNair in southwest Washington, D.C.

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