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Our Camden facility is rocketing forward. 🚀 We’re modernizing and expanding our Camden site to accelerate production of solid rocket motors, which are so critical to the security of our nation and its allies. https://bit.ly/3K7M3wu
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Walking through defense trade shows and engaging in discussions in Washington D.C., I’ve come to realize we're at a pivotal moment. The brilliant minds behind the 20th century's monumental defense & aerospace inventions—the Space Shuttle, the Internet, and the early work in autonomy—are nearing retirement with no clear succession plan. I see this as a prime opportunity to elevate the defense sector, rebuild its industrial base, and address the toxic culture left from the consolidation era of the '90s. To paraphrase Y Combinator’s mantra, our primary responsibility will always be to build capabilities that our defense end users actually want. Yet, to achieve this, there are essential issues we must tackle: 1. Combat the entrenched wastefulness in government programs, driven mainly by the cost-plus contracting; 2. Build an ecosystem of partnerships that is inclusive, moving beyond the exploitation of subcontractors; 3. Bring high-quality talent, especially software engineers, into the same rooms as military members; 4. Reform procedures that prevent the use of modern software engineering in defense platforms. I am excited that we are building that future at Picogrid, together with several other upstarts pulling all-nighters in/around El Segundo (Neros Technologies, Hadrian, Rainmaker Technology Corporation, Rangeview...), and groups of engineers and military members obsessed about keeping a high bar on quality all across the country.
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Great panel discussion today! Lots of interesting topics covered but I was most curious to hear how both software providers and users are thinking about how AI is going to impact the authoring and use of Augmented Reality Work Instructions. For some teams, those who have established work instructions that are matured over time are looking for a way to easily migrate that information into an immersive AR experience. For others, AI and computer vision can be used to “error check” what it sees. My challlenge is that due to our high mix low volume workload, our work instructions are created just in time to support production and are used only a handful of times. So while leveraging existing is work instructions is important im actually interested in how AI can be used to help us communicate between design and production to partially auto generate our work instructions. Its my belief that building that digital thread will help facilitate that down stream “error checking”. ✌🏼
Great panel on enterprise work instructions with Alex Goldberg at Blue Origin , Sven Brunner, Alex Berlin , Erika Cion, Eng. of Lockheed Martin and our own David Nedohin!
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On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Papua New Guinea, nearing the end of their record-setting journey around the world never to be seen again. Until today. Deep Sea Vision found what appears to be Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.
The nature of warfare has changed dramatically, yet the maritime domain remains critically important. In an increasingly asymmetric battlespace, traditional naval ships are too large, too expensive, and too time-consuming to build and replace. The answer is attritable, autonomous vessels, capable of carrying out the missions that will decide the next conflict. Saronic Technologies is redefining maritime superiority. We’re proud to share a glimpse into the “how” and “why” behind one of America’s emerging weapons - and, as of today's $175 million Series B announcement, 8VC’s newest defense unicorn. CC: Dino Mavrookas Rob Lehman Vibhav A. Doug Lambert Natalie Wiegand John Morgan Alex Moore Justin Rose https://lnkd.in/gtuRNwdA
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Collis P. Huntington, the American industrialist and one of the four great railway tycoons of his era, founded Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company in an effort at vertical integration: coal, railroad, and shipbuilding. His famous quote , engraved in stone and placed at the shipyard gates was “We shall build good ships here. At a profit—if we can. At a loss—if we must. But always good ships.” That quaint idea has been lost by the lesser billionaires and CEOs of our day, who’s sole purpose is profit for the shareholders; Boeing and General Electric being prime examples. Oh how the mighty have fallen. We need to get back to Huntington’s mission statement where the profits come for a well run company who’s main purpose is to build or design the thing they do, better than anyone else.
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