Military

“What we learned from all-electric is you just don't get the range and the payload capacity. That the military is looking for.”

“The Mansfield amendment in six, nine, 71 named after Mike Mansfield of Montana said, okay, the military can no longer fund blue sky research inside of our university system, unless it has a direct military express military purpose.”

“Artificial intelligence actually just gives the military the opportunity to, one, operate at a greater scale and then operate more efficiently. These aren't robots actually just making decisions on when to go to war or not.”

“Where the military, you know, where the military is trying to acquire things built to spec, the goal of Anduril is to acquire things built to mission, right, so they fund their own R&D, they put their own money up, rather than asking the government for R&D dol…”

“And so autonomy introduces this incredible capability where we are going to do the things we have to do, whether we like it or not. We need to do those things. This way ensures that the outcome is very likely higher quality and puts significantly fewer people …”

“We work with all the, you know, major branches of the military, we also work with primes, there's projects we sub on, there's other projects they sub with us on, but We're really everywhere in the defense ecosystem in the U.S.”

“I oftentimes go and do guest lectures at Stanford, and I always try to ask, like, raise your hand if you have an immediate family member that serves in the military. No one ever raises their hand.”

“If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white collar job, Meaning primarily democratic shaped people met whom I grew up with, highly educated people who went to elite schools or went to schools that are almost elite who vote for one par…”

“For most of history, more than 50% of the budget of every government in history, the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the Athenian democracy, whatever, more than 50% of the budget goes to the military.”

“For the first time in history, the average health care budget was around 10%. First time in history, on average, all over the world, governments spent more on healthcare than on the military.”

“You can chase kind of nonsensical you know, products that don't have longevity to it, that aren't actually fit for purpose. Maybe you can make some money off of it for like a few years, but if you're not actually aligned to where the government's going to be, …”

“And so we believe, I believe that, you know, premium power is where you need to go with nuclear, and there's sort of like two, there's two places for that. One is what we're doing with Antares, which is go to the military, help them with mission critical need …”

“The vast majority of people I saw fail throughout the military, and you could argue throughout business or whatever. They beat themselves far before anybody else did.”

“Defense is inevitably going to move to these highly distributed drone-based systems as a major component of any branch of the military.”

“Military as a percentage of the GDP, or as a percentage of the budget, has been, you know, relatively stable, and in some cases decreasing since, since the end of the Iraq War.”

“Obviously your benzodiazepine class is, is pretty big as well although the military is trying to move away from those.”

“And this has been a really big point of interest for the military is can we build neuromodulation or brain stimulation devices that can control sleep architecture and make it so when war fighters sleep three hours, they really feel like they're sleeping five h…”

“So the military still pays their salary.”

“Academic leadership, the military, and the Army in particular, is probably one of the best institutions in the world to teach that stuff. They've really studied it. They've got a lot of real-world experimentation of what works and what doesn't.”

“And I think that that's the right formula for people to be using going forward for diplomacy, not how do we out militarize each other? I think military is an important component to it, but to have an end state that's sustainable, you need to figure out how can…”

“We're now, this year, gonna spend more money on interest on the debt than we spend on our military.”

“For example, the military spends 40% of their budget, over four hundred billion dollars, on maintenance.”

“The system now is in its infancy, but those hooks and those basically that fully automated mode is dialed into the way we architected it. So today, the military is not willing to go fully automatic”

“I'm going to say working with the military is important, and it's going to become more important over the next 20 years.”

“Typically a new one takes over or you start to get some sort of decay in the existing order when there's a lack of technological innovation. So the US and also to some degree when you're overstretched from military perspective, because then all your sort of op…”

“Some of our best sales reps were school teachers. Or have come out of the military or have come out of the restaurant industry, not folks who have had many years selling, you know, for other businesses.”

“What, like, 70, 60% of young people could not join the military if they wanted to because they're so out of shape.”

“So we've actually partnered at times with the military with some of their tests in that, hey, there's an element to be able to measure someone's combative attitude. On the battlefield, but also be a useful citizen in public.”

“In fact, hardware security modules is what it's used by the military to store nuclear launch codes, for example.”

“The central intelligence agency took a longer term view. They would operate in an area and they would build intelligence networks and capabilities because they were going to be there forever in some form or fashion. The military was typically there for much sh…”

“The truth is, if you sit back in D.C. And you listen to what the military tells you know, the military, God bless us, will say what we want to be true. It's not that we're lying, but we've been given a mission and we desperately want it to be going well, and s…”

“They, they've decided that that's an expenditure that is not worth the cost, and so the vast majority of them don't, ah, invest there, whereas the military, for all its weaknesses, spends an awful lot of time developing leaders, and as I described, the militar…”

“We can have countless opponents, and they don't all have to be coordinated. They just have to share a general common intent to do us harm, which makes them more difficult because you have to defeat each one, not, you can't defeat them as a network, and that's …”

“You know, the rigor of operations that you need in business. Like there's no better training for that than the rigors of military and the systems and the timing and the production, the detail oriented nature. He's like, so any manufacturing business in China t…”

“Even I believe during Vietnam, in the early days of Vietnam the military was doing research with PTSD and other trauma with LSD, and they found that it was basically curing soldiers' PTSD.”

“We, look, we have been we've been arming our police force mistakenly like our military. And we've been doing it for, you know, decades now, and it makes no sense.”

“And in the military, they teach them to be open with their emotions, to ask for help, to accept help, to cry and create safe spaces For others to do the same.”

“We're in all the intel agencies, all the military, and most of the civilian side of the government.”

“In the corporate sector, the big thing I had to learn, it took me a while, was it's lead follower, let's talk about it. And you spend all this time in meetings with people just talking about things, and it just drove me nuts when I first got into the corporate…”

“There's no better way we could prepare people for leadership in the civilian sector than have them Serve in the military, and being leadership positions”

“One of the myths about the military is, oh, everyone in the military is just they're like robots, and they'll just listen to what everyone says. Well, the fact of the matter is, that's not true. And even in, even, even inside the SEAL teams, everyone thinks, o…”

“And I will tell you, there are 1750 players in the NFL, and I will tell you, these players have great respect for the military, and so it's not about the military to them. It's just that becomes an opportunity, a platform for them to speak about their concerns…”

“Every technology that came out was really, even if it was invented by somebody else, It was operationalized by the military or some government entity.”

“The companies now that are coming up with the new technology are big consumer companies and not the government and not the military.”