Pete Roney, Thales USA vice president for innovation and technology, is clear that the Pentagon is not the reason his Paris-based parent company is making investments here in the U.S. to find and spur innovation. But if it is interested in the results, great. Northrop Grumman Chairman, CEO and President Wes Bush and Raytheon Chairman and CEO Tom Kennedy are just as clear, but even more ardent. They want the U.S. Defense Department to think twice before looking beyond heritage defense providers such as theirs. Meanwhile, Rockwell Collins CEO and President Kelly Ort-berg thinks his company already is doing what the Pentagon wants and is well-placed to profit from technology's changing landscape. Above all, nobody seems to know what tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Austin, Texas, make of any of it, if anything.
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