The Pentagon Wants Innovation. Small, Nimble Businesses Want to Deliver. So What’s the Problem?

Defense tech’s hot and the Pentagon’s changed how it buys weapons. And yet, ‘There’s a huge strain’ on the defense supply chain, as one CEO says. How smaller contractors are fighting to avoid the valley of death.

BY ISSIE LAPOWSKY @ISSIELAPOWSKY

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