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How AI Is Changing Warfare | Palantir CTO
Patrick O'ShaughnessyShyam Sankar
Shyam Sankar argues that military innovation comes from heretics who build outside bureaucracy, while defense-specialist spending rose from 6% of major weapon-systems spending in the Cold War era to 86% today.His reindustrialization thesis links production capacity to innovation and AI productivity, with hundreds of founders now treated as “plan A” inside the Pentagon and more than $100B invested in their projects, making execution and cost-plus contracting key signals to monitor.
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]
Patrick O'ShaughnessyDarren Farber
Defense is repricing its 80-year security bargain, but the investable bottleneck remains replacing legacy programs rather than the headline $858 billion budget.Commercial technology, autonomous mass, and industrial scale can create overmatch, while Farber favors one-of-one suppliers near the molecule, backed by long contracts, low replacement cost, and reinvestment rather than prototype novelty alone.