Comments on: It turns out there wasn’t a next Palantir or SpaceX

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 07:13:46 +0000

“The brain-drain. In previous eras, the military could reliably attract the best technical talent. Historic minds like John von Neumann lent their abilities to branches of the armed forces. That is no longer the case. Today, many of the best technologists work at companies like Google and Meta. “We’re not in a position where our best and brightest are working on national security,” Stephens said.”

Google and FaceBook are a joke compared to what the U.S. Military & Co. are doing under wraps of TS/SCI.

The non-TS/SCI side of Google and FaceBook, that is…

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 07:08:16 +0000

“He was super interested in national security.”

Someone put that on an epitaph.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:09:26 +0000

“Software First” A historical note: When General Bernard Schriever was appointed to head the USAF ballistic missile in 1954, he quickly concluded that the major airframe manufactures couldn’t do the job, or at least couldn’t do it in a relevant time frame, and appointed a small company called Ramo-Wooldridge (later TRW Systems) as overall systems integrator for the project.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:39:18 +0000

It is an interesting company. One of the investors is Andreessen Horowitz, and they consider it part of what they call their ‘American Dynamism’ area of practice. Here’s a post by Katherine Boyle, a fairly new partner at A-H who in focused on that area:

https://www.commonsense.news/p/the-case-for-american-seriousness?s=r