Bloomberg Surveillance · Friday, July 24, 2026
Senator Dave McCormick highlights the need to modernize the U.S. defense industrial base, citing increased global danger, evolving warfare tactics (drones, AI), and past apathy. He stresses the importance of faster procurement, introducing new technologies, and increasing manufacturing capacity, pointing out that the U.S. produces far fewer drones daily than Ukraine.
“The World's getting more dangerous to the nature of warfare is changing dramatically with drone's autonomy AI. And Third, we've had apathy within our defense ecosystem, so we need to introduce new players into our defense ecosystem, drone manufacturers and all sorts of other unique capabilities.”
“And we need to change the way we procure defense systems. So it needs to be much faster, it needs to be much more competitive. We need to constantly be innovating.”
“In Ukraine, they make ten thousand drones a day a day. We have nowhere near that manufacturing capacity here at home. So we need to ramp up that manufacturing capacity.”