Brian Schimpf
21 statements across 5 episodes · 7 bullish · 8 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 6, 2023 by Brian Schimpf · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Feb 6, 2023 bullish
Brian Schimpf: AI enables military deployment of 100,000 autonomous systems
“AI kind of broadly gets you this ability to scale up to 100,000 of systems Being able to do a much, much higher volume of activity that's much harder to defeat, it's much harder to counter and you can conduct, you know, warfare in a much more precise and large…”
Feb 6, 2023 negative
Schimpf: DoD spends far less on software than commercial tech firms
“When you look at, like, how these things play out in terms of, like, what do modern technology companies spend? Take a Tesla, take any of these companies that are building, you know, kind of modern hardware, software enabled systems. You know, what's the perce…”
Mar 5, 2024 positive
Defense startups willing to build weapons are the most likely to succeed
“A lot of the areas that You know, are going to succeed are often the ones that are less popular. It's areas working on weapons. Like, this is not an area that a lot of companies are interested in doing, but I think to succeed in the defense space, you have to …”
Mar 5, 2024 positive
Lower costs allow the Air Force to fund multiple autonomous aircraft vendors
“Unlike, you know, something like an F-thirty-five, where it's only feasible to afford one provider of this you can start to look at for this, for weapon systems, for a variety of these things, Carrying multiple people to be able to really incentivize the indus…”
Mar 5, 2024 positive
Defense startups fail by solving non-urgent problems for the DoD
“I think the single most important thing is if you're solving a critical warfighter need on a problem that, you know, urgently needs to be solved, you can be successful. I think the trap for most people is they're solving a problem that would be great to solve,…”
Mar 5, 2024 negative
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Jan 28, 2025 bullish
Schimpf: Military surveillance and strikes will soon achieve high automation levels
“Yeah, I, look, I think the mechanics of, okay, there's this airfield, and you want to go surveil it, and, like, take it you can do some strike, you can do some surveillance, you can do all these things. That, there will be a large degree of automation in that,…”
Jan 28, 2025
Jan 28, 2025 neutral
Jan 28, 2025 bullish
Jan 28, 2025 bullish
Schimpf: AI's primary defense role is managing massive sensor scale
“So when I think about, like, where AI is going to drive The most value for warfare. It is dealing with the scale problem, which is really like the amount of information that is the number of sensors, like the sheer volume of systems that are going to be fielde…”
Jan 28, 2025 negative
Jan 28, 2025 negative
Sep 29, 2025 negative
Schimpf: Anduril found virtually no American-born tier-one manufacturing executives
“Looking for a great head of manufacturing. There's basically no like tier one execs we could find that were American born. We ended up finding someone who was from Canada, but everyone I found who was like great thinking about this differently, like really nov…”
Sep 29, 2025
Sep 29, 2025 negative
Schimpf: Rebuilding unplanned defense supply chains takes five years in a crisis
“But if we are looking at, you know, we've got to add a crisis work all the way back to the raw materials that we didn't plan for. Now you're looking at five years of lack of being able to reconstitute that supply chain.”
Sep 29, 2025 negative
Sep 29, 2025 negative
Schimpf: U.S. government lacks data on deep defense supply chain dependencies
“Number one, I think you need data, right? Like there's very little data on like what two, three levels down into the supply chain is actually on that bill of materials and what are the, you know, kind of critical components.”