.@HadrianInc , @LockheedMartin & @GMDefense teamed up today to hyperscale critical munitions production alongside @USDASDuffey at Lockheed’s fantastic facility in Texas - a new chapter in the Arsenal of Freedom. Lockheed and Hadrian signed a first of its kind, 7 year manufacturing-as-a-service agreement, with a whole Hadrian factory inside Lockheeds campus launching in January.

Amca has been awarded a contract by the @USArmy, establishing an enterprise-wide partnership with Army Materiel Command for rapid engineering, qualification, and component production. This is the first partnership of its kind, designed to increase readiness for a priority missile system by re-engineering and improving manufacturability of critical components and subsystems. We're grateful for the Army’s trust, urgency, and leadership, and look forward to re-engineering American industry together.

As America reindustrializes, industries that are starved for technical talent should study the U.S. Navy’s nuclear training pipeline. Under Admiral Hyman Rickover, the Navy proved that ordinary recruits can transform into elite technical operators through rigorous academics, hands-on qualification, relentless standards, and real responsibility. The Navy nuclear model is simple yet demanding. Students first master fundamentals: math, physics, reactor theory, thermodynamics, electrical and mechanical systems, chemistry, and radiological controls. They must explain, calculate, defend, and prove understanding. Then they move to real nuclear plants, where theory becomes action through oral checkouts, evaluated watches, drills, and qualification under pressure. This rigorous training works because of the culture of excellence instilled by Rickover himself. “Good enough” is not good enough. Competence is built through repetition, ownership, hard study, and instructors who know both the equipment and how to develop people. Qualification is only the beginning. Continuous training, audits, daily drills, critiques, and root-cause analysis keep standards from decaying. Civilian industry can’t simply copy the Navy. Companies can’t compel their employees the way the military can. But they can adapt the principles: paid intensive training, labs, simulations, mentored on-the-job qualification, clear standards, frequent evaluation, strong instructors, career ladders, and retention incentives tied to real advancement. Manufacturing, energy, semiconductors, defense production, data centers, and advanced nuclear all need this mindset. If these industries want workers, they will have to grow their own. Rickover’s legacy is about more than nuclear submarines. It is proof that excellence can be engineered. If America wants to rebuild its industrial strength, it must stop waiting for talent to appear and start replicating the pipelines that can produce it.

There are so many seasoned software executives who are completely out of their element with the types of products that will breakout in the next few years. Over the last 20 years, their brains were wired to build apps that deliver value by outputting deterministic results, but AI produces value from probabilistic results. This is such a different way to approach how something should work. Young people who are thinking in this way from the outset will be at a significant advantage -- in the same way they were advantaged when thinking about how products could be social in 2010.

As a recovering SaaS GTM nerd, one of the most under discussed reasons why enterprise software is sticky is that implementations are painful and transferring to a better product is almost never worth the migration pain. I think AI will take the rip and replace cost of large enterprise ERPs down to 0. Most SaaS teams should be building AI migrators and doing free implementations ahead of contract signing to rip legacy competitors out.

🚨 LISTEN TO EVERY WORD OF THIS SPEECH. Marco Rubio is talking about the terrible mistake America made with manufacturing. But listen again and think about America’s SKILLED WORKFORCE. We were told it didn’t matter WHERE things were made. Find the lowest cost. Maximize efficiency. Maximize profits. Then we woke up and realized we had hollowed out our own industrial capacity and become dangerously dependent on other countries. Now we’re being told something remarkably similar about our skilled workforce. It doesn’t matter WHO develops the software, engineers the systems, analyzes the data or builds the technology. Just find the talent wherever it comes from. Meanwhile, American graduates are trying to break into these careers while employers can recruit through H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT and CPT. Here’s the lesson I take from Rubio’s speech: A country’s capacity isn’t just its factories. It’s its PEOPLE. Their skills. Their experience. Their knowledge. Their careers. Rubio says 21st-century reindustrialization will require workers with MORE skills and more education. So let’s build that capacity here. Train Americans. Hire Americans. Develop Americans. We spent decades learning what happens when we outsource our industrial capacity. Let’s not learn the same lesson with our human capital. @SecRubio @JDVance @SusieWiles47 @realDonaldTrump @RepRileyMoore

.@VP: "Working with your hands is very much the work of the future — and the idea that if you're working with your hands, you're not using your mind is one of the dumbest things that America's leaders ever told a generation of American kids."