An Ex-SpaceX Engineer on How Sweden Can Change Its Defense Procurement - w. Aaron Dinardi

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com/in/maxvillman 📞 Swish: 1234902979 This week I sat down with Aaron Dinardi — a former SpaceX and US Air Force engineer now based in Sweden — to talk about why Swedish (and European) defense and space procurement struggles to move fast. Aaron breaks down the exact playbook NASA used to build SpaceX, why Sweden keeps buying "new old" instead of "new new," and what needs to change — both structurally and culturally — to fix it. He's also organizing the Next Space conference in Gothenburg on November 9th, which we dig into toward the end.