Col. John Reim, USA, program executive officer for SOF Warrior Systems at US Special Operations Command, discusses his priorities, preparing special operators for great-power competition, countering communications challenges in the field, problems he’d like industry to help solve, rapid acquisition lessons learned, how to foster agility and more in a May 24, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, held May 21-24, in Tampa, Fla. Our coverage was sponsored by FLIR.