26 October 2022
Cyber Media Forum
Moderator: We’re responding to the overwhelming interest in your work and the attendance for the recent session with Eric Schmidt and Bob Work set a record for our organization, so we are honored to have you back to discuss your next two reports.
The one on Intelligence in an Age of Data Driven Competition; and then, of course, The Future of Conflict and the New Requirements of Defense.
I’d like to thank the Howard Baker Forum and DXE Technology for their support of everything that we do. Also a very special thanks to Tara Rigler, someone I worked with for 20 years and who used to be the gold standard of communications, and it’s just great to be working with her again.
I see most of the people around the table. I know Ylber who is the Senior Advisor for Defense and Intelligence; Justin Lynch who’s the Senior Director for Defense; Peter Mattis is your Director of Research Analysis for Intelligence; and Luke Vannurden is the Associate Director for Defense at the Special Competitive Studies Project.
While normally we jump right into Q&A, I think it would be valuable since your reports are so thorough and so deep, I’ve actually read every word but can’t say I’m fluent. In fact I’d ask you for just a quick sort of top line/bottom line, what you think the most important points are, and then we’ll jump into a discussion.
Mr. Bajraktari: Good morning, everyone. Good morning, Thom. Thank you very much for having us today and for the opportunity to have this discussion, as well as the discussion in-house previously with Dr. Schmidt and Bob Work and our ARCEO and for your many years of excellent reporting at the Pentagon where I had the privilege of spending 13 years and we’re often learning from your writings about what was happening in the building. So I really appreciate the opportunity to have this conversation.
