| | | America's capitalism at work in the developing high tech defense field, with Palantir and Anduril leading the way.
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it's a beautiful thing.
Eccentric but very enterprising geniuses saw a huge market opportunity in the bloated 'cost plus' structure of the defense procurement market, with Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed, etc., regularly raping taxpayers with 'cost plus' contracts submitted as part of Requests for Proposals. Somehow, cost plus always ends up costing more than anticipated. Imagine that.
And now that China is turning jingoist.....well, what's a red-blooded American eccentric genius to do except help his country and make a good living. I wonder what the Chinese think of this surfer dude. LOL! Typically American, typically Southern Californian. What a story. Howard Hughes redux. Anduril's founder:
en.wikipedia.org
Thank you, China, for the wake-up call.
Palantir and Anduril, but especially Anduril (still a private company whose shares are available in the NASDAQ Private Market), is providing off-the shelf, cheap, hugely scalable weapons which the Pentagon is buying.
What's Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed to do? Well, if they're smart, they'll change and follow Anduril's example. Granted, some weapons systems are so big and sophisticated that you do need those behemoths. However, smart, flexible, AI-controlled, scalable, cheap and small but deadly systems are utterly necessary to counter the jangling sound of swords coming from the East.
Just what we need. |
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