How the factory of the future can drop defense costs and schedules by 50 percent
Here’s some excepts from an excellent a16z podcast with Chris Power, founder of Hadrian which is building the software-enabled factory of the future: Chris Power: […]
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A brief history of the munitions industrial base, and the importance of GOGOs
During the first few years of World War I, European nations modernized weapons with machine guns, tanks, airplanes and larger artillery, leaving the American CMIB […]
Can building the factory around software cut defense costs by half?
We certainly don’t think we will be disrupting Lockheed Martin or Boeing. So, buying like a 747, for example, 70% of the cost of that […]
Redefining military readiness for Great Power Competition
Under the current readiness paradigm, our answer to “what needs to be ready?” is “the stuff we have today.” However, as we observed earlier, the […]
Make industrial mobilization cool again — or is it for the first time?
The tradition of the Department of Defense is to define a weapon system end item, then fund that end item and the supplier base through […]
Production can be 1,000% harder than design, says Elon Musk
Designing the production system of a new product is at least an order of magnitude or two orders of magnitude harder than designing to initial […]