‘Shock the system’: Startups and DOGE take over Reagan forum

SIMI VALLEY, California—“Efficiency” was the word of the weekend at the Reagan National Defense Forum here. Defense-startup executives were giddy at the prospect of gaining comparative advantage through Trump-administration attacks on Pentagon bureaucracy, while lawmakers cautioned that substantive changes would require their review.Defense tech firms like Palantir and Anduril believe the Department of Government Efficiency, a project led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, could