Thomas Day is a consultant at Intueor Consulting and an adjunct lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He served in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, including a tour in Iraq from 2003 to 2004. Tom was also a correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010.
Silicon Valley was built on defense dollars, but bureaucracy and a rise of Big Tech and startups have left the U.S. military behind in defense acquisitions.