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Palmer Luckey calls Department of Defense innovation projects pure PR theater.
“There's all these people at DOD who have this job, basically their job is to generate things that look real enough to make a press release, or to do a panel, or to release a video, or to talk to Congress, and none of it is actually real, or useful, or deployab…”
Palmer Luckey argues refusing to build precision weapons is morally reprehensible.
“If you can make something that allows for more precision strike, less collateral damage, I think it'd be morally reprehensible to refuse to do it, to try and keep your own hands.”
Lonsdale: Anduril integrated with Saronic in three days versus legacy primes
“So we have this company, Sironic, I think you're also just invested in them, that we helped, I helped build, and it's growing really fast for the Navy, and the people, they asked us to weaponize some of the autonomous vessels, and they, and so we reached out t…”
Meyer: Palmer Luckey has no direct reports at Anduril
“Palmer Luckey is one of the founders of Anderil. Most people are under the impression that Palmer is actually the CEO of Anderil. In fact, it's Brian. And everyone at Onderell is emphatic that Brian is the decision maker, is the executive. We learned in that p…”
Lonsdale: Google dropping Project Maven triggered founding of Anduril and Epirus
“Maven came up and they gave it up. And then, you know, that was like the alarm bell that led to the founding of Andrel and Epros and Saronic and these big companies we were building now”
Saronic Launched Anduril Drones From Its Autonomous Surface Vessels
“So we work really closely with them. We've done integrations. And to your point, we've integrated with Altius, launched it off of our 14 foot platform. We did that really quickly.”
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.”
Anduril's Lattice platform fuses thousands of sensors into real-time 3D models.
“I mean, we haven't talked about it much yet, but I mean, what we build with Lattice, it's an AI sensor fusion platform that can take data from thousands of sensors and merge it into a real-time, three D model of everything, and then tag everything in the model…”
Luckey: Anduril's first pitch deck targeted saving taxpayers hundreds of billions
“And from the beginning, I mean, in our first pitch deck, it said, we are going to become a company that saves taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year and makes tens of billions of dollars a year.”
Scott: Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX will be generation-defining companies
“Anthropic and Anduril and SpaceX. These are phenomenal companies. They will be generation defining companies, and it is a good strategy to give money to ATVC and Founders Fund and Thrive to invest in these companies.”
Anduril Air Force Contracts Prove Startups Can Win Major Prime Programs
“Andrel's doing phenomenal things, and Building great platforms in the aerial domain, and they're actually doing stuff subsea now as well, and they just want a massive contract with the CCA program for the Air Force, and they're really showing that New startups…”
McAfee: Anduril reached a billion-dollar federal contract in five years
“Anduril, which is this fascinating company, right, which went from, I think, founding to its first billion dollar contract from the federal government in five years?”
Luckey: Anduril Ghost Drone Is Completely Inaudible at 100 Meters
“At a hundred meters, it is inaudible to the human ear. And because it's a helicopter, it's very, very skinny and very, very short. And we stack everything all in a line. When you look at it dead on, it's like this big, like this is the front of the thing. So t…”