HONOLULU —The defense industry is producing some great gear, but just one prototype isn’t enough to truly test out something new, the commander of Marine Corps Forces Pacific told an audience of tech company representatives.

“What we need is: when you come with it, don’t come with one with the intention to take it home with you, and all the data that was collected while we conducted an exercise together,” Lt. Gen. Jim Glynn said during a keynote speech at AFCEA TechNet Indo-Pacific. “Come with five. Take one or two home and leave three with us, and we’ll continue to work with it. We’ll give you access to all the data that’s coming off of it, and we’ll do everything we can to break it, with the goal of making it better.”

This type of experimentation and immediate feedback is critical bec

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