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Jim talks with Samo Burja about his report on the U.S. Defense startup Anduril’s plan to modernize the US military. They discuss “live players vs. dead players,” AI adoption & cognitive tools, Anduril’s background & naming origin, military technology modernization, software-defined conflicts, autonomous & software-enabled weapons, sensor deployment & data collection, the Lattice software platform, hardware offerings including drone & underwater vehicle acquisitions, surface naval warfare obsolescence, military industrial capacity, US vs. China manufacturing capabilities, personnel-to-weapon system ratios, drone production scale, cost considerations, defense industry ecosystem, traditional contractors, friend-shoring possibilities, NATO+ industrial capacity, component manufacturing, future warfare implications, training advantages of digital systems, scale of drone warfare, AI capabilities gaps between nations, industrial advantages in military competition, and much more.
- Episode Transcript
- EP 244 Samo Burja on Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Bismarck Brief
- “Anduril’s Plan to Modernize the U.S. Military,” by Samo Burja
- Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
- EP 247 Sergey Kuprienko on Drone Warfare in Ukraine
- Bismarck Analysis
- Foresight Institute
- Anduril Industries
- “Anduril Industries Acquires UAS Developer Blue Force Technologies” – Press Release
Samo Burja is the president and founder of Bismarck Analysis, a consulting firm specializing in institutional analysis for clients in North America and Europe. He is also a Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Foresight Institute and chair of the editorial board of Palladium Magazine. You can follow him at @SamoBurja.