{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Building the Base","title":"Hon. Brent Ingraham on Data-Driven Management and Industrial Base Innovation","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1854,"description":"In this episode recorded live from the 2025 Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, hosts Lauren Bedula and Hondo Geurts sit down with the Honorable Brent Ingraham, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology. Secretary Ingraham shares his remarkable journey from designing engines at General Motors to answering an unexpected call from the Marine Corps in 2009 to fix the automotive failures of MRAP vehicles, launching a 16-year career passion for getting the right capabilities to warfighters. The conversation explores his revolutionary approach to managing Army programs through live digital dashboards instead of PowerPoint presentations, how entrepreneurs can engage with the Army's acquisition system, and his mission to \"unleash\" the acquisition workforce by eliminating bureaucratic roadblocks that prevent rapid capability delivery.\nFive Key Takeaways:Strategic recruiting can transform both careers and national security: Secretary Ingraham's unexpected recruitment from the automotive industry demonstrates how targeted expertise from outside traditional defense channels can solve critical problems, highlighting the importance of creative talent acquisition pathways that bring diverse industrial experience into defense acquisition leadership.The Army is unleashing its workforce to deliver: Secretary Ingraham's core message to his acquisition team is freeing them from excessive staffing requirements and bureaucratic processes, telling them \"we want to take the bureaucracy of all of the staffing, of paperwork and processes out\" so they can focus on what they were hired to do: designing, developing, delivering, and sustaining capabilities for warfighters.The Army manages programs with live data: In keeping with his position that \"I do not want to manage programs by PowerPoint,\" Secretary Ingraham has begun revolutionizing Army acquisition by implementing real-time digital dashboards that provide instant visibility into cost,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/YkgqaEmgpTT1cFL1xKLYe1oTMyZItdGn1hPZblhwI-4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI5NjYxLzE3MTE0/NzEwNTktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}