--- title: Defense Tech and Acquisition News | daily.dev description: 2024 is a year of real defense reform with a focus on maximizing deployment of commercial capabilities, fielding unmanned systems, leveraging private capital,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/defense-tech-and-acquisition-news-kqh6qvywn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Defense Tech and Acquisition News | daily.dev og:description: 2024 is a year of real defense reform with a focus on maximizing deployment of commercial capabilities, fielding unmanned systems, leveraging private capital,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/defense-tech-and-acquisition-news-kqh6qvywn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KqH6QVywN.png og:image:alt: Defense Tech and Acquisition News og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Defense Tech and Acquisition News **[Substack](https://daily.dev/sources/substack)** · 28 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 2024 is a year of real defense reform with a focus on maximizing deployment of commercial capabilities, fielding unmanned systems, leveraging private capital, tapping into new tech talent, and fueling bottoms-up innovation. The Navy Program led by PEO(IWS) RADM Seiko Okano aims to find creative solutions to warfighter problems and change the budgeting process for quick purchases of new capabilities. The Pentagon is pursuing venture capital funding for defense-technology startups to maintain military superiority. The Replicator initiative aims to revolutionize how the Defense Department does business and bridge the 'Valley of Death' by increasing the number of players providing capability and solving scalability and supply chain challenges. Other highlights include the impact of AI, quantum computing, and space in 2024, breakthroughs in quantum computing, challenges in using large language models in national security, the need for data analytics in defense, and the need for Ukraine to make a major tech breakthrough to win against Russia. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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