The question in that headline is the right one, but I’ll tell you what I’m hearing from the cleared executives we place: it’s less about the technology itself and more about whether your team can actually adopt it without breaking the mission. A new capability doesn’t matter if your delivery cadence, your security posture, or your workforce can’t absorb the change.
The operators who get this right aren’t chasing shiny objects. They’re asking which tools let them move faster without adding risk, and whether their people have the clearances and the temperament to work differently. That’s the conversation I’m having with C-suite candidates right now—not what’s possible in a lab, but what’s survivable in a program of record with oversight, compliance, and a poly’d workforce that’s already stretched thin.