EXCLUSIVE: Race Heats Up for the Key Weapon of the Future

The next installment of our special series features Michael Sekora as founder and director at Reagan White House’s Socrates Program. We tackle the question of: If there is a single key weapon, what would it be? What about China’s position in the future?

Sekora said: “If we really look at it, technology and pre-technology is a single continuum. It’s all interconnected. But Americans silo it, when we work with somebody like Ford—and we’ve talked about cross-pollinating with certain technologies out in the aerospace industry. The response is, ‘That’s aerospace technology, we’re not going to use that.’ It’s technology. But yet, when we’ve worked with and talked with some of the Asian companies in Japan and Taiwan, it’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, that makes sense. You know, technology is technology.’ Technology is basically blind. So cross-pollinating with aerospace, and then bringing in something from the textile and the entertainment business and looking at those cross-pollinations to generate a competitive advantage, and then later, bringing another one to further increase it was fluid