Rick Newman
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- Milken Institute42 min
A New Era of Military Technology | Global Conference 2025
Rick Newman, Jeff Cole, Matt Markel, Mariam Sorond
This Milken Institute panel brought together defense technology startups Hidden Level, Epirus, and NextNav to demonstrate how agile, non-traditional contractors are closing critical warfare gaps left by legacy primes. Highlighting specific operational successes, the session detailed Hidden Level's passive radar for rapid drone detection, Epirus's high-power microwave systems for cost-effective kinetic disruption, and NextNav's 5G-based terrestrial positioning as a GPS alternative. Executives and strategists concluded that leveraging rapid-acquisition pathways like OTAs is essential to overcoming bureaucratic inertia while securing US technological resilience against global threats.
- Milken Institute21 min
A Conversation with Eric Schmidt | Global Conference 2025
Eric Schmidt analyzes the evolving Ukraine conflict as a volatile stalemate driven by massive drone production, automated sensor-to-shooter loops, and the obsolescence of traditional armored platforms like tanks and aircraft carriers. He contrasts Ukraine's rapid, two-week innovation cycles against the Pentagon's sluggish 16-year procurement process, arguing that rigid bureaucratic structures prevent the U.S. from adopting necessary autonomous systems. Schmidt concludes that to counter modern hypersonic threats and future high-intensity warfare, the U.S. must pivot from expensive stationary assets to affordable, internet-prosecuted robotic forces integrated with its domestic startup ecosystem.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Building Tomorrow's Workforce Today
Rick Newman, Pradeep Khosla, Daphne Kis, Chauncy Lennon, Jane Oates
Driven by a paradox of low unemployment and stagnant labor force participation, the U.S. is confronting structural flaws in its outdated training systems and opaque credentialing infrastructure. In response, initiatives like Credential Engine are deploying transparency databases while educational models such as P-TECH and Swiss-style apprenticeships are scaling to align workforce skills with industry demands. Despite these reforms, experts warn that addressing equity gaps and a looming faculty shortage remains critical to transitioning from a degree-centric culture to one focused on long-term adaptability and competency-based matching.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Housing: An Asset Class or a Place to Live?
Scott Garrett, Jeff Greene, Emile Haddad, James Litinsky, Rick Newman, Jim Latinsky
Following a bottom in sales, the housing market has stabilized with prices rising 9% year-over-year, yet experts attribute the current recovery to artificial government support that creates unsustainable low mortgage rates and a heavy reliance on GSE bailouts. A severe shortage of entitled land in high-growth regions combined with massive private and foreign investor activity is constraining supply, while panelists warn that a return to free-market interest rates could collapse the recovery if buyers cannot qualify at 5% or 6%. Although policymakers aim to reform GSE dominance over the next two decades, the consensus remains that the current era of financial repression has mispriced assets and risks a future correction once subsidies are reduced.