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Breitbart News went live from the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, and the coverage spelled out a simple message: strengthen our military, fix the broken procurement system, and get American industry working for national security again. Senator Dave McCormick used the stage to push a clear agenda, and Breitbart’s exclusive interview put his words on record for anyone still asleep at the wheel.
McCormick’s pitch: peace through strength and a procurement wake-up call
Senator Dave McCormick told Breitbart the summit exists to “reinforce President Trump’s peace through strength agenda.” He reminded listeners that Pennsylvania supports the defense industrial base with roughly 190,000 workers, and he said the summit drew about 1,300 participants, including nearly 600 C‑level executives and some 500 companies. Those are not numbers for a cocktail party — they are the kind of industrial heft Washington needs to stop outsourcing advantage.
McCormick didn’t mince words about procurement: “The procurement process has been broken,” he said, and noted defense spending has “gone up by about 30 percent.” Translation: cash is moving, but systems are clogged. If you want innovation to matter on the battlefield, you have to stop making the Pentagon compete with itself in red tape olympics. Simple. Fast. Accountable.
Why the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit matters
This summit is not a kumbaya tech conference. It is a meeting of military leaders, CEOs, investors, and entrepreneurs with a plan to rebuild the defense industrial base and get real equipment into soldiers’ hands. With President Donald J. Trump set to headline and industry heavyweights on stage, the event is the next step in McCormick’s playbook of marrying private capital to national security priorities. After last year’s energy and innovation announcements, the country should expect more than rhetoric — it should expect concrete partnerships and procurement reform.
Exiger, Brandon Daniels, and the promise of defense tech
Breitbart also embedded an on-site interview with Brandon Daniels, CEO of Exiger, who is pitching tools for supply-chain security and AI-enabled risk work. Companies like Exiger can offer solutions to real problems: keeping tech secure, vetting vendors, and tracing parts. That said, talk is easy and fielding secure systems fast is hard — so McCormick and Daniels’ claims deserve follow-up and fast testing. If the summit results in pilots and procurement changes, that would be progress. If it results in more PowerPoint meetings, well, Washington will have done what it always does.
Bottom line: this summit — and Breitbart’s exclusive coverage of Senator Dave McCormick and Brandon Daniels — is a welcome reminder that America can still marshal industry, money, and tech for defense. The job now is simple: turn words into contracts, speed the procurement pipeline, and hold leaders accountable when they promise results. If Washington wants to keep playing games, the troops will pay the price. If McCormick and President Donald J. Trump mean what they say about “peace through strength,” now is the moment to prove it.
