Schimpf: Anduril landed a $1 billion counter-drone contract with SOCOM
Brian Schimpf · No Priors Ep. 19 | With Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf · Jun 1, 2023 · at 31:46
Brian Schimpf is the co-founder and CEO of Anduril, discussing major Department of Defense contract awards and Programs of Record.
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“We had landed a counter drone contract with SOCOM for a billion dollars to, you know, kind of scale out and get these technologies deployed.”
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