A foreign partner's payment has sat in a U.S. government account for nearly a year. The order still hasn't shipped. It's stuck in contracting. That kind of friction is exactly what Church Hutton, Chief Growth Officer at AV, has spent his career navigating: from Senate Armed Services and Appropriations staff, to Army Reserve officer, to leading growth at a company that just doubled in size by acquiring Blue Halo.
Tyler and Church dig into:
Why "cost per effect" is broken — the U.S. is shooting down $20K threats with million-dollar interceptors
Why laser weapon systems are finally moving from prototype to production after decades of false starts
The historical parallel between the Army's interwar cavalry branch and today's Pentagon modernization fights
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Church Hutton has spent over two decades moving between Capitol Hill, uniformed service, and defense industry leadership, most recently steering growth at AV through its transformation into a full-spectrum autonomous systems company.
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