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Steckman: Anduril builds cruise missile airframes like bathtubs using contract manufacturers
“The cruise missile we build, the actual airframe is built like you build a bathtub. And so we can take advantage of tons of contract manufacturers in the United States that can actually build a bathtub, right?”
Steckman: Legacy defense primes get paid to fix mistakes, unlike Anduril
“A lot of our competitors, the really big ones, if they make a mistake, They get paid to fix it. I think if we make a mistake, we lose money, and we lose contracts, so.”
Steckman: Only one drone startup will ultimately win the market
“There'll be one that wins, right? It's going to be really hard to pick it, I think is the problem. Like, but there will definitely be one winner.”
Steckman: Defense startups myopically focused on the Ukraine war will fail
“If those companies are myopically focused on that conflict, they will not have a business coming out the other end.”
Steckman: Anduril is a couple of years away from an IPO
“Still a couple of years out, but we're close. We're in the window.”
Steckman: Autonomous systems will eventually replace every single military mission
“I believe that that is true in the long run. I also believe that we're not even close to where a lot of people think we are on it. Like I think we're still in the early days on, on tons of this tech. But as time goes to infinity, like absolutely every single m…”
Steckman: Anduril's $20B government contract contains no upfront obligated funds
“Think about this as like a credit card limit. So the government has said up to twenty billion dollars they can spend on a class of Andurl's commercial technology. There's no obligated money”
Steckman: Anduril intends to target defense space market gap below SpaceX
“It's a huge open hole, I think, in the market that is something we definitely would run at.”
Anduril halves traditional defense product development time to 3-5 years
“So in defense, typically in a traditional Sort of product curve at seven to 10 years. We're doing it in three to five, which is kind of part of the magic of the company, and the thing we've become known, known for with our customers is, like, you're effectivel…”