Software-first modular design enables 2-3 year defense hardware cycles
Matt Grimm · Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Nov 11, 2024 · at 31:28
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder and COO of defense technology company Anduril Industries, explains how modern engineering approaches can accelerate defense product release cycles.
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“I think a two, three year cycle is extremely believable, especially if you architect your products to be pretty modular. If you architect your products to be upgrade friendly, if you upgrade your you design your products around a software kind of mentality where you can, you know, thinking similarly to how Tesla approaches their fleet of cars with their over the air updates pushing pretty frequently. Like if you take a software first approach, To a lot of the products. Yeah, I think you can get a lot shorter than a five, 10, 15, 20 year kind of life cycle, but six, 12 months, I think would be pretty hard.”
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