Department of War

7 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 13, 2025 by Emil Michael · said 7 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Dec 13, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Michael: Department of War closed three critical mineral deals in 45 days
“The three I'm most proud of, ah, in a very recent term, is we've done three deals for critical minerals, ah, to reduce our dependency on China in like, 45 days.”
Emil Michael Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 18:38 Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Dec 13, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
DoD prioritizes adapting commercial AI over building in-house foundation models
“Applied AI is number one. And the reason I call it applied AI is because the big companies, OpenAI, Anthropic, XAI, they're all investing hundreds of billions of dollars in AI and AI infrastructure. So all I need to do is take that and adapt it for the departm…”
Emil Michael Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 11:08 Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Dec 13, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Michael: The Department of War is a three-million-person bureaucracy
“Look at what's literally the biggest bureaucracy in the world, right? Three million people at the Department of War”
Emil Michael Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 3:47 Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Dec 13, 2025 negative
Insight
Michael: Critical technology areas lingering for a decade signals failure
“These critical technology areas were almost 10 years old since 2018, and if something's critical for 10 years, that means you're not making much progress on it.”
Emil Michael Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 10:32 Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 23, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bry: Skydio serves 4,000 customers including every US military branch
“We're right around 4000 customers. These are enterprise government agencies that are using the products. So this is every branch of the Department of War, number of allies around the world, 1200 public safety agencies across the country, almost every State Dep…”
Adam Bry Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 3:23 Skydio Raises $110M Series F at $4.4B Valuation | CEO Adam Bry · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 11, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Monroe-Anderson: Neros Was First with an FPV Drone on Blue UAS List
“We were the first company to have an FPV drone on the blue UAS list, meaning the Department of War could actually just purchase and use it without having to go through a bunch of crazy approvals.”
Soren Monroe-Anderson Aug 11, 2026 ▶ 19:00 The $2.5B Drone Company Trying to Become the Toyota of Defense
Sep 8, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Mavrookas: Only 1% of US defense budget allocated to autonomy
“When you look at the budget today, just look at the Department of War's budget, we talked about the request for 1.5 trillion, and where the budget is today, right around a trillion dollars for 26, one percent went towards autonomy.”
Dino Mavrookas Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 4:58 Dino Mavrookas: America Needs to Build Ships Again
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