Using five-year plans for strategic planning routinely fails because it is not a fast enough iteration cycle.

“And by the way, it routinely doesn't work. Like it like routinely fails because the world is too dynamic and that's not nearly a fast enough iteration cycle.”

Government contracting should shift away from prioritizing past performance toward evaluating what a company can deliver in the present.

“I think when we look at defense you know some of the defense reforms that we want to see happen are things that actually push more toward entrepreneurship not on past performance but like what can you do for me today? What can you deliver today?”