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US Africom's Warfighter Innovation

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Council held a tech expo at Kelly

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Barracks . So we're really excited to

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launch the Warfighter Innovation

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Council , which occurred back in

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November . Real value proposition of

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commercial solutions is the fact that

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they can run at speed . Africom

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requires a variety of different

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commercial vendors to integrate on our

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mission sets to close those capability

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gaps faster . The tech expo is really

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key to industry bringing in things that

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are ready . To deploy today . It's a

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chance for Amen to take that capability

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and marry it up to what are our key

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problems . And this allows us then to

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see where is there maybe a new way to

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use this existing technology and apply

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it to problems today and bring that

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down to the theater and maybe share

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with an African partner who has that

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need as well , where we can take that ,

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deliver that capability , and improve

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lethality and readiness .