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Matt Shortal
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The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America
Matt ShortalJohn DoyleDavid TuttleGrant Jordan
Veterans are turning firsthand exposure to drone, logistics, and cellular failures into dual-use companies built for low-cost, asymmetric conflict.Their unified products and apprenticeship-derived operating cultures address defense’s procurement bottleneck, where $1 million-$2 million contracts must bridge to $200 million programs; faster experimentation, ruthless exits, and midsize deployments remain the key catalysts.