Topics & People

General Atomics
Organization

An American energy and defense corporation that developed the Predator drone.

Abe Karem
Person

The creator of the Predator drone, representing an era of American drone innovation that was later stifled by regulation.

The founder of Skunk Works who built 41 airframes and actively fought government bureaucracy to maintain innovation.

A technology founder who served in the Department of Defense and created the original, concise 5000 series on acquisition.

A hardware engineering approach where core capabilities and adaptability are driven primarily by software.

The software operating system designed to efficiently manage and automate modular manufacturing processes at Anduril's factories.

Arsenal One
Location

Anduril's 5 million square foot software-defined manufacturing facility located in Columbus, Ohio.

A military strategy under which one power uses the threat of reprisal effectively to preclude an attack from an adversary.

A market structure in which there is only one buyer, heavily referenced in relation to the US government's purchasing of defense equipment.

Co-founder of Anduril and former Palantir employee who also worked at Founders Fund, focusing on defense technology.

A computer scientist from NYU who published an improvement to Shor's algorithm, vastly reducing required quantum operations.

Helium
Topic

A highly successful decentralized infrastructure project previously backed by Multicoin Capital.