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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• LinkedIn: Church Hutton

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• LinkedIn: Tyler Sweatt