The U.S. is lacking a sense of urgency, he said, after decades of overconfidence when it comes to quickly innovating and besting the technology of near-peer competitors, which have been investing and studying U.S. weaknesses. And budgetary uncertainty created by a string of continuing resolutions only adds to the U.S. disadvantage, he said. “Try winning the mile race when you spot your competition a lap. You can do that, but you have to be really, really fast,” Richardson said at Booz Allen Hamilton’s annual Directed Energy Summit. “We just aren’t. We’re far too bureaucratic.”
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