Palmer Luckey

The biggest defense contractors had stopped innovating as fast as they had before, prioritizing shareholder dividends over advanced capability, prioritizing bureaucracy over breakthroughs.

Silicon Valley, which was home to many of our top engineers and scientists, had turned its back on defense and the military writ large, betting on China as the only economy or government worth pandering to.

Tech companies that once partnered with the military had decided that national security was someone else's problem.

The result?

Your Tesla has better AI than any US aircraft.

Your Roomba has better autonomy than most of the Pentagon's weapons systems.

And your Snapchat filters?

They rely on better computer vision than our most advanced military sensors.

Now, I knew that if both the smartest minds in technology and the biggest players in defense both deprioritized innovation, the United States would forever lose its ability to protect our way of life.

And with so few willing to solve that problem, I decided that I would try my best.

So I founded a company called Anduril.

Not a defense contractor, but a defense product company.

We spend our own money building defense products that work rather than asking taxpayers to foot the bill.

The result is that we move much faster and at lower cost than most traditional primes.

Our first pitch deck to our investors, who are very aligned with us, said it plainly.

We will save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year by making tens of billions of dollars a year.

Now, while we make dozens of different hardware products, our core system is a piece of software, an AI platform called Lattice, that lets us deploy millions of weapons without risking millions of lives.

It also allows us to make updates to those weapons at the speed of code, ensuring we always stay one step ahead of emerging and reactive threats.

Another big difference is that we design hardware for mass production using existing infrastructure and industrial base.

Unlike traditional contractors, we build, test, and deploy our products in months, not years.