Under Secretary Emil Michael (@USWREMichael) on the @DeptofWar's important partnerships with universities for the development of emerging tech: "What we're getting from a lot of these universities [is] a passion for defense, a passion for the warfighter, wanting to be part of the solution here, and it's been exciting... We have all kinds of assets that we're building and [doubling down] on these research universities who have an ethic of being patriotic and want to help the warfighter." @SenMcCormickPA @DOWResponse #PADefenseSummit#

Under Secretary Emil Michael (@USWREMichael) on the importance of complementary mass attritable systems: "The exquisite systems that we have will be much more powerful if they are accompanied by mass attritable cheap things... The idea is to get something that's designed for manufacturing from these new companies, so from the day it's designed, it can be scaled and produced." @SenMcCormickPA @DeptofWar @DOWResponse #PADefenseSummit#

Under Secretary Emil Michael (@USWREMichael) on the @DeptofWar’s framework agreements reached in its Low-Cost Containerized Missile program: "We signed four deals with new entrants... We offer these companies a contract if they deliver. This is a shared-risk model - it's not all on the government paying cost-plus, it's we pay you a fixed price when you deliver, [and] there are some benefits for delivering early and penalties for delivering late." @SenMcCormickPA @DOWResponse #PADefenseSummit#