Brian Schimpf is the co-founder and CEO of defense technology company Anduril Industries. He discusses applying AI software to multi-sensor counter-drone hardware on the battlefield.
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Schimpf: Small numbers of exquisite weapons cannot win modern wars
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“Grants are, in my opinion, the worst possible form of this. It's like, you know, giving Intel an outrageous amount of money to build a facility that they didn't believe they had demand for. It's like, why would they not take the money to build a facility? They…”
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AssertionSupported
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“Where there's something like 250 times the shipbuilding capacity you know, massively, massively, probably thousands of times on the weapon side. You know, it is just on drones. It's massive. Like, you just, kind of look category by category, massively outpacin…”
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Opinion
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“Is like, to me, it is unethical to not apply these technologies to these problems.”
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Opinion
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