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Peter Newell (@PeterANewell) CEO of BMNT joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode of Solarpunk. Takeaways:

- Peter was “handed the Ferrari of skunkworks” when he came to be in charge of the Rapid Equipping Force. It was a program that handled over a billion dollars to deploy new technologies.

- He became more of an entrepreneur after his time at the REF and that led to starting BMNT.

- Often times procurement in the US military is HQ-centric and product-centric and does not take i

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