Time to reboot the arsenal of democracy!

Andurill writes,

Despite spending more money than ever on defense, our military technology stays the same. There is more AI in a Tesla than in any U.S. military vehicle; better computer vision in your Snapchat app than in any system the Department of Defense owns; and, until 2019, the United States’ nuclear arsenal operated off floppy disks.

China and Russia spent two decades harnessing our most powerful weapon — innovation — and built advanced weapon systems designed to neutralize and surpass our own. The results are sobering: today, in almost every wargame the United States Department of Defense models against China, China wins.¹

Throughout World War II and the decades that followed, the West attracted the world’s most brilliant scientists and engineers, many of whom made foundational contributions to national defense. John von Neumann, Alan Turing, Kelly Johnson, the Jasons, and other gifted patriots recognized that our prosperity is only as strong as our means to defend it. Their technological innovations didn’t just bolster our military — many of their advances percolated into the consumer market. War research and development turned futuristic dreams into household staples: personal computing, GPS, the Internet, commercial air travel, and so much more.

It is time to recapture that spirit of innovation and bring cutting-edge technology to our armed forces again. War in Eastern Europe, the looming threat of a Taiwan invasion, and a rising tide of security threats in other regions of the world demand it. This is not a matter of minor reform. It will require a major re-evaluation of what kinds of technology we build, how we build it, and the speed at which we move.

Read more here: https://blog.anduril.com/rebooting-the-arsenal-of-democracy-anduril-mission-document-67fdbf442799