Andy Lowery
CEO, Epirus. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Andy Lowery leads Epirus, a defense technology company developing high-power microwave and directed energy systems such as the Leonidas platform. He previously served as Business Area Chief Engineer for Electronic Warfare Systems at Raytheon and co-founded industrial augmented reality companies RealWear and DAQRI.
2shows
2appearances
28statements
12resolved
7supported
3contradicted
58%fully supported
2said about them ↓ Everything Andy Lowery said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Lowery: Anduril is pursuing a 'me too' strategy against China's manufacturing
“There's an element, one, of folks doing me too, like Andrew's very me too to China. They said, we're going to go toe to toe. We're going to manufacturing in volume. We're going to build computers. We're going to build drones. We're going to build everything th…”
Lowery: AI-controlled battle systems will be necessary to fight drone swarms
“And in the case of this type of warfare, it's going to be necessary. The necessary decision to go forward with AI-controlled battle otherwise a man or a human in the loop won't work.”
Lowery: US produces 50,000 drones annually compared to China's 60 million
“China's building, I've heard, sixty million drones per year is not outside of the question of China being able to do, but, ah, and US maybe 50,000 drones in a year. So there's a huge disparity there.”
Lowery: The US military is forced to buy foreign-made computers
“The microprocessors, the computers, you cannot buy an American made computer. You have to go overseas. You have to go to China and military doesn't want to buy A foreign made computer, but there isn't any option, so they have to do by exception”
Lowery: Epirus built automated targeting, but military rejects fully automatic mode
“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”
Lowery: US Builds Only Dozens to One Hundred Air Missiles Monthly
“I think our entirety of our short range air missiles that we can build per month are in the dozens.
Like, I think in the tens or the, or maybe end up to like a hundred.
But just orders of magnitude less than what folks can build with consumer electronics.”
Lowery: China Can Probably Build 100,000 Small Drones Monthly
“If you talk group one and group two, China can build probably 100,000 group one and group two systems in a single month.”
Lowery: US Border Experiences Thousands of Drug Drone Incursions Without Interdiction
“They have somewhere along the lines of a couple thousand drone incursions over the border, and all we're doing today is just watching them fly on by. That's all we're doing. We're not doing a thing to them, and they're coming in, and we know they're carrying i…”
Lowery: The US is not the world leader in hypersonics
“There are areas like hypersonics and others where we're not the best in the world”
Lowery: Traditional defense primes invest minimal internal R&D outside DOD programs
“Everything they do is tethered to, kind of, direction from the DOD, and so they do very little, like, internal commercial innovation. There isn't a lot of internal research and development dollars spent on pure innovation that isn't tethered to a DARPA or some…”
Lowery: Swarm attacks confound legacy defense prime electronic warfare systems
“We see the proliferation of swarms, swarms attacks, paralleled attacks, very paralleled attacks, which confounds basically the traditional defense prime electronic warfare.”
Lowery: Epirus system achieved 100 percent defeat rate in April Army trials
“We had zero targets that we did not take down. In other words, we were 100% effective on Every single scenario and every single target that they threw at us, we had an effect on”
Lowery: Epirus plans overseas front-line military deployment in fall 2024
“We intend to be in deployment mode come this fall. So in this fall, we'll have a final sort of test out of all the different bugs that we learned in the first limitations test, and then we'll send these things overseas to really, really, really be in the war a…”
Lowery: High-powered microwaves will definitely become a major space warfare tool
“Space is a it would be a, it's definitely a domain where high powered microwave will become a significant player in. In the near future.”
Lowery: Epirus Will Enter a DoD Program of Record in 2025
“We are deploying to CENTCOM. If those deployments are successful, we will be palmed into a program or record In 20, 25.”
Lowery: Russia Can Build 500 Shahed Drones Per Month
“Russia, I think can build 500 shahads per month.
The group three shahad, 500 per month.”
Lowery: Traditional one-to-one air defense cannot scale against mass drone swarms
“Until they overwhelm your defenses, overwhelm your ability to protect, and the traditional way of protecting, one effector, one threat, OODA loop, that isn't going to work.
It does not scale with this sort of six-domain threat.”
Lowery: US high-volume amplifier manufacturing died after the early 2000s telecom boom
“We haven't built that kind of volume of amplifiers in the United States anyways since the early 2000 when we were doing the base stations and all of the towers were going up for our cell phones everywhere and you had Nortel networks and all of that. That was r…”
Lowery: Next Generation Jammer deployed aboard USS Abraham Lincoln
“And oh, by the way, Next Generation Jammer just went on its first deployment with the USS Lincoln. So now it's being shipped overseas.”
Lowery: Epirus is developing microwave shields for Abrams tanks and airfields
“And we have activity in a wide spectrum Of different sorts of applications that range from a very sort of close range self protect, like the Abrams tanks, for example, ranging all the way up into the protect a whole entire airfield.”
Lowery: Epirus can build HPM systems effective at 10-kilometer ranges
“We're confident that we can build HPM that can have effects, very, very ubiquitous effects out at those ranges as well. Very, very confident.”
Lowery: Epirus testing microwave weapon against boat motors with Navy
“We're going out with the Navy and participating in what's called Antex. And Antex is a program that we're going to take one of our systems and put a whole bunch of different outboard boat motors out in the water and see how far and how quickly and how effectiv…”
Lowery: HPM-equipped Roadrunner could take down 10 drones per flight and recover
“So even though, ah, HPM systems are relatively expensive compared to a 30,000 dollar drone, you can actually take down maybe 10 drones a flight and then re-land and, ah, recover with a Roadrunner.”
Lowery: Epirus Faces FAA Authorization Delays Even on US Military Bases
“In the frequencies we work in, a lot of those frequencies are run by the FAA. And so the FAA has to give us permission to radiate big radiation at those frequencies, and we've run into problems Domestically, even on bases, even on military bases, being able to…”
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| AMERICAN OPTIMISTLEDGER | CEO, Epirus | 1 | 23 | 67% 6/9 | full record on American Optimist → |
 SOURCERYLEDGER | CEO, Epirus | 1 | 5 | 33% 1/3 | full record on Sourcery → |