Dhruva Rajendra
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Yeah
Turns out that despite drones (and because of drones) you need to make and launch as many shells and missiles as you can to win a war
We are working on it
Western Mil experts have been writing these articles about hi tech wars for decades only to find themselves at the receiving end of a Russian conscript army because they forgot to produce enough artillery shells.
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Reindustrialize felt like the first week of college.
You get to meet ambitious, talented people from around the country who want to fix the world. You stay out late scheming until the bars shut you down (or throw you out).
Walk away with lifelong friends and infinite energy
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JD has been fighting for supply chain resilience since before it was cool.
Earlier this year, he flagged the acquisition of Vista Outdoor (owners of Remington, Federal and CCI) to CSG to CFIUS for alleged ties to Russia.
Reindustrialization has its candidate.
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1975: you’re going to need a bigger boat
2024: you’re going to need a bigger clip
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Important piece in the WSJ from
@RepGallagher
:
America needs better bombs.
It really does.
It also needs massively more of them.
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Everyone else will get artillery starved at some point, but the US and its allies will *not*
⚡️ Half of Russia's shells used in Ukraine supplied by North Korea, The Times reports.
According to the newspaper, around 3 million a year are being shipped from Pyongyang to Moscow, though a large number are believed to be faulty.
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China is now the largest grower of guncotton, a critical component of gunpowder.
Rebooting the arsenal of democracy will require more than drone swarms and fighter jets. It requires making the stuff that actually goes boom.
We need to double down on investments in this
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It's the most bipartisan thing ever folks. They've never seen anything like it. It's so bipartisan, they told me, hey, could you make it more partisan?
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Me when someone asks if there’s a bubble in defense tech
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Met
@joelcpanderson
over a year ago. I haven’t seen many teams move this fast on such a complicated (and critical) hardware product as them.
Congrats and keep grinding!
We’re thrilled to announce that ZeroMark has raised $7M in seed funding to bring our 'Handheld Iron Dome' tech to market and flip the script on small drone threats by making our defenders untouchable.
Led by
@KTmBoyle
of
@a16z
and
@jordanodinsky
of
@GroundUpVC
, with
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SpaceX built a cheap way to get to space, Gravitics is giving us a way to stay there.
Excited for
@6thStMayor
@colindoughan
and the whole
@GraviticsInc
team!
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“The fact is that a major industrial war is being fought in Europe, where once again, it matters how much you produce. It doesn't matter how much you stockpiled.
So that you can fight an industrial war without it becoming nuclear, I think this a new piece of information.”
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Boomers to grandkids: I was at Woodstock when I was your age.
Me to my grandkids: I went to Reindustrialize when I was your age.
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We took our supply chains for granted.
We shouldn’t take the security of manufacturing for granted too.
The future of manufacturing is intelligent, automated AND secure.
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Finding a great lobbyist is a huge unlock for startups, but it’s worth assuming every lobbyist is a grifter until proven otherwise.
Some lobbyists milk a few (often old) relationships relentlessly. Your ask will never see the light of day.
Others have way too many
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Congress should treat munitions procurement like they do the F-35—strategically vital, providing a quantifiable edge over adversaries, and supporting allies.
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I remember reading AI Superpowers and thinking… China is taking this race super seriously, we are f’d.
Only to watch OpenAI and Silicon Valley pass them like the Millenium Falcon racing a dirty bike.
How a US/China superintelligence arms race will play out:
“The CCP is going to have an all-out effort to infiltrate American AI labs.
Thousands of people, the full force of the Ministry of State Security.
There's an enormous incentive for a first strike.”
@leopoldasch
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We're laying down track as the train approaches at
At daily Russian rates-of-fire, one year of German ammunition production is used in just over two months.
From
@sylviapfeifer
and
@NicFildes
for FT.
H/T
@ElbridgeColby
:
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you did it
@MikeSlagh
According to census estimates, Detroit grew in population last year, for the first time since 1957
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between the Trump sh*oter and cartel drones why aren’t we pushing new CUAS into service at home?
Just spent time with a senior US Border official who shared a series of alarming stories. First, the Chinese and the Mexican cartels are flying drones from Mexico into the US to surveil US law enforcement. The FAA (overseen by
@PeteButtigieg
) doesn’t allow any kind of 🧵
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You may not like it, but this is what peak drone warfare looks like.
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need more missiles
@AeonIndustrial
Mitsubishi produces 30 Patriot missiles a year. The Pentagon wants 100.
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amazing opportunity to join a great team
We’re hiring. Join the fight to defend America and the West 🇺🇸
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At least they kept the Wizards
We're happy to announce that we have opened our newest office in the D.C. area. We are excited about the city's dynamic tech ecosystem and look forward to engaging with founders and experts who share our vision for the possibilities in defense tech and beyond.
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The 81 year old partner when the youngest partner pitches a $30MM investment into a company trying to replace the “aging workforce” with robots.
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no drones were harmed in the making of this podcast
Four days until launch of Drone Wars Podcast! Episode 1 dropping Friday, Sept 27th with Dhruva Rajendra
@dkrajendra
, cofounder and CEO of Deterrence, a defense tech company building advanced autonomous manufacturing systems.
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We should automate so much more in America that the question of ports automation is meaningless.
We should be making so much stuff here that shipping anything from China is ludicrous to begin with.
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The core problem is that a human factory worker cannot move as quickly (and as safely) as a factory robot - speed and safety mean time, materials, and energy efficiency, which means less money for greater output.
But we don't (yet) have the robots:
Scarcity exists and will exist.
“But overall, efforts are still being hampered by supply chain constraints, and…much greater investments are needed if Europe is to be able withstand Russia’s aggression while refilling depleted stockpiles.” 1/
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Wife: So what do you want for your birthday this year?
Me:
DARPA Manta Ray on Google maps
Coordinates:
34°09'12"N 119°12'31"W
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tip of the iceberg
China just announced export controls on a critical mineral used in >300 types of munitions.
Currently, the US doesn’t mine this resource at all & imports 63% of supply from China.
A domestic mining project that would fix this has been stuck in environmental review since 2016.
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Despite all the technical advances in the last 50 years, the thing that still sways the outcome of wars is "who can make and shoot more ammunition, faster"
A lack of automation is a national security risk
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian SU-25 attack aircraft are striking the town of Vuhledar nonstop.
Russian artillery channels also reported that they have unlimited access to artillery shells and say they are firing more rounds on Vuhledar than they did on Bakhmut.
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👋
Someone is working on that
what if it were 10x faster to design and build task-specific automation equipment?
someone should be working on that
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Being afraid of pursuing automation because it takes effort up front is like how some people never learn Excel shortcuts and more complicated tasks at a greater volume stay forever out of reach for them
In case you are wondering (you know, for your online arguments), it takes an estimated 4-8 years to convert a port to full automation, and between $500 million to $2B.
For reference, Shanghai’s Yangshan port took about 4-6 years from conception to full operations.
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Congress will have to address some of the structural challenges - legal authorities binding procurement process - but technology can solve the research and scale component.
We will have new energetics and we will be able to output more and better American munitions:
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never bet against lettuce
Will Biden outlast the lettuce?
10 days. The countdown starts now.
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Cost, safety and regulations pushed manufacturing abroad.
Robots and AI will bring them back.
Marc Andreessen says the only way to rebuild U.S. manufacturing may be through fully robotic and AI-enabled factories
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Godspeed 🫡
The 1-million square foot Starfactory brings many parts of the manufacturing process under one roof for the first time, moving as much system integration work as possible earlier in the build process, with the goal of eventually producing 1,000 Ships a year
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@hodgetwins
Harold Dagget is a huge leech
@hodgetwins
- he's not saving anyone's jobs; he's ensuring American jobs get shipped to China.
China employs 120 MILLION people in their highly automated manufacturing sector. Automation doesn't mean losing jobs - but stopping automation does.
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hands are the 🔑
Here’s my 10 cents on why taking a hands-first approach is the only way to build a general purpose humanoid (thread):
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The biggest mistake Tesla made on the Cybertruck was to not release the Nighthawk black option.
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@aphysicist
Started my career in health tech. It would shock you how much “automating your workflow” costs.
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Hard to watch 😔
This is missile abuse.
Missiles want to fly to find their targets, and if they are strapped down like this and subjected to "experiments" that do not allow flight, especially on camera, they can become depressed and sluggish in their controls and occasionally not power on at all.
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Harold Daggett is an overpaid leech.
He's leading good people astray. He's NOT protecting jobs, he's ensuring more jobs get shipped to China.
120M Chinese are employed in manufacturing, a third of their workforce have jobs in factories.
They didn't lose jobs to
The head of the ILA union Harold Daggett took home more than $900k last year. He is serving his 4th consecutive 4-year term and lives in a mansion in New Jersey.
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16 down, 11 to go. Amazing progress by
@adcock_brett
and the
@Figure_robot
team.
4th Generation Hands
The latest human-scale hands are equipped with 16 degrees of freedom and human-equivalent strength which enables a wide range of human-like tasks
The entire hand was designed in-house: mechanical, electrical, controls, and sensors
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The longshoreman ports strike reveals the soft underbelly of the United States of America:
We don’t make our own stuff anymore, we buy it from our competitors, and they automated everything.
This is too expensive, too risky, and it has to be fixed:
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@EdwardMehr
There’s also always one guy who points out it doesn’t matter so long as the product works and allows everyone get back to work 🫡
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Steinman is 100% right
And it's why we need to be able to build things here again.
Listen up and listen good.
International Longshoreman's Association President Harold J. Daggett is about to give you a master class in power.
Not fake, op/ed writing, Davos-flying, “Adults are back!” power,
Not Harvard-educated “norms of state behavior” power.
Real power.
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Not only should every port in America look like this, but more factories should look like this, and we should have 100x more of each of them.
The job of the guy narrating in the video shouldn’t be a rarity, but a commonly held job because there is THAT much to oversee in the
The thousands of striking dockworkers are fighting something very simple: machines taking our jobs.
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If you’re not impressed please pat your heads while rubbing your belly and report back
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telling my kids this was Build Back Better
Excel launches today with a very simple mission: grow the economy
I’m excited for founders and capital allocators to get their hands on this and leverage it to create value and deliver returns for shareholders everywhere:
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In 1940, the US had only 1/10th the aircraft that the Luftwaffe built (and Boeing was going bankrupt).
By the end of WWII, America produced more aircraft than have ever been built in commercial ever.
I believe that we will win.
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Software speed coming to material science & chemistry is going to one of the biggest unlocks this decade.
This is the most surprising and exciting result of my career: we were running simulations of NaCl with a neural network potential that implicitly accounts for the effect of the water, ie a continuum solvent model (trained on normal MD) when Junji noticed something strange: 1/n
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It's a good question; part of why this is true is new energetics require lots of testing and new manufacturing set up. Machine types are different. Supply chains are different.
It's easier to do the same old thing than anything new.
But wars are won when you do new things.
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This would be the coolest thing ever
@elonmusk
@all_in_tok
@DavidSacks
Open invitation to the best damn ship in the Navy to talk automation!
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what a run.
Flying cars, humanoid robots, and weapon detection systems 🖤
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🚨 Let the games begin — China launches exercise Joint Sword 2024A, surrounding Taiwan from all directions
Thread with everything you need to know + tracking live updates:
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@oyhsu
Hopefully you include some folks in bio/ chem / material science. There’s a ton of talent that can/should be unlocked there.
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@dgmason
@jturow
@AnonPlatform
As someone who was kicked out of apps at least 20 times today, I’m glad you are saving agents from this login hellscape.
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Whenever you see automation think “doing more, faster, cheaper. Every argument against it becomes an argument to do less, more slowly, more expensively
Transporting goods is not artisanal trade. Making steel beams is not a hobby. These are the things we need to do more of,
If America cannot end this port strike and automate our ports, we are not a serious country.
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Bring back the 600-ship Navy
After decades of strategic drift and costly acquisition failures, the U.S. Navy is sailing straight into a storm it can’t avoid.
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Raytheon engineers hearing this news
“Any involvement with military and weapon manufacturing impacts our position as leaders in ethical and responsible AI, and goes against our mission statement and stated AI Principles,” the letter that circulated inside Google DeepMind says.
@billyperrigo
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Me to the CIA:
So
@McKinsey
built a "think tank" based at McKinsey's Beijing office, using McKinsey's domain, McKinsey's research, and their senior staff.
That "think tank" then authored a 300-page book on how the CCP could dominate future war technology and gave it to CCP Premier Li Keqiang.
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