Jordan Black

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Sourcery · Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

And then the other aspect is building more factories for scale because the current US industrial base cannot keep up with the amount of demand that's going to see.

And if we have hundreds of miles and planes and we need to go three to four X that every single year, we can't keep up with it by just having no official training programs, no real scalability on the software side.

Yeah, you're absolutely hitting on the right trend.

I think the US is now being reactive of like, we have a need.

There is a huge supply chain gap between what products we need to build in the US that are critical and like what the industrial base can support.

specifically wire harnessing because it's such a manual assembly task.

It's not like you can just go buy more machines and run them or get more factory space.

You have to go find more skilled workers in this niche environment that there's no official training program for, no official instructions of how to tell someone to do it.

It is all tribal knowledge.

And so I think the biggest fact is like, center is being reactive to the problem or proactive for the problem, which is,

we know we're going to have to three to five extra demand in all these defense systems how do we start building up the supply now so that we're ready to go ahead of it too um and the other aspect of it is we're seeing a lot of the demand coming from these scaling companies like the andrels of the world and the spacex of the world that are moving very rapidly into their production phase

And they need to have that agility with suppliers today versus the 800 plus mom pop shops that exist all over the US that are not just not only growing or

not only are they not growing, they're actually going away and either private equity is buying them or they're being absorbed into other companies or anything else.

And it becomes a very scary moment of if this one company in the middle of nowhere state goes away, we don't build more of this fighter jet or more of this missile or more of anything.

So Senra is really being proactive on that portion of like working with our customers, say, how do we make wire harnessing leads to your problems?

How do we digitize the whole things that you and I can go build a wire harness versus this bespoke a process to.

The government knows that wire harness is a big issue, and we've been working very closely with some of our folks on the Hill on not only policy improvements, but

government relations on how do we work not only with the government but with also the people they're buying from which is mainly the primes and the neo primes um and they've been extremely helpful into like figuring out kind of that narrative but most of ours is in the defense space because that is what's like is hyper growing right now we do plan to go more into the commercial market uh but a lot of these primes that are also are going to be both on the government side and on the commercial side too

So I saw this problem firsthand at SpaceX where I owned so much of this manufacturing that went into the R&D environments for all these different programs within SpaceX and harnessing was the bane of everyone's existence there.

And it wasn't getting better, it was just getting worse.

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