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Moving Fast and Breaking the Status Quo

June 3, 2025
Moving Fast and Breaking the Status Quo
Cogs of War
Cogs of War
Cogs of War
Moving Fast and Breaking the Status Quo

Moving Fast and Breaking the Status Quo

Ryan Evans and Justin Fanelli
June 3, 2025

“Innovation adoption is a contact sport.” As the chief technology officer of the Department of the Navy, Justin Fanelli is one of the leaders responsible for ensuring warfighters have access to bleeding-edge solutions. Listen to his conversation with Ryan Evans, recorded live at an event in Washington, DC — our first episode of Cogs of War, a new vertical on defense tech and the defense industry brought to you by War on the Rocks and supported by Booz Allen Hamilton.

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