BREAKING: Inside Anduril. Exclusive HQ Tour w/ Founding Team.
Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Matt Grimm, Trae Stephens
ANDURIL INDUSTRIES
In this Sourcery exclusive, we go inside Anduril’s headquarters and R&D facilities with the founding team: Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf (CEO), Matt Grimm (COO), & Trae Stephens (Executive Chairman), to understand how modern defense technology is actually built.
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This is a rare, behind-the-scenes walking tour & sit-down interview inside Anduril Industries, a $30.5B defense technology company that develops and sells autonomous systems, AI-powered software, and advanced hardware for military and security applications to protect US and allied forces.. one of the most consequential defense companies of this era.
Special thank you to Matt & Julie from Anduril for reaching out & helping make this happen after seeing my Sourcery 100 dream guest list!
This certainly blew all of my expectations. I hope you enjoy!
We walk through:
Anduril’s R&D labs, machine shop, and test environments
Autonomous fighter aircraft (Fury) and manned-unmanned teaming
Fully autonomous submarines (Ghost Shark / Dive-XL)
Distributed command-and-control systems (Menace, Titan, Eagle Eye)
Arsenal-1, Anduril’s upcoming 5M sq ft hyperscale manufacturing campus in Ohio
And discuss:
Why manufacturing capacity is now deterrence
Where the nearly $1T U.S. defense budget actually goes
Why legacy procurement systems struggle with speed
How Anduril beat Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrop on next-gen fighter programs
The ethics of AI, autonomy, and Just War Theory
Why testing to failure is essential — and misunderstood
How global instability is reshaping defense spending worldwide
It’s a candid, technically deep, historically grounded conversation about war, factories, speed, ethics, and the future of deterrence, filmed inside one of the most closed, sensitive, and technologically advanced facilities in American industry.
And let’s just say.. there is still, much more to come. 😉
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00:00 Founders of Anduril
01:30 Brian Schimpf: Production, software, & the future of warfighting efficiency
05:40 Global instability & why allies are ramping spend
09:10 Ghost Shark in Australia & Anduril’s global expansion model.
12:40 Trae Stephens: “the factory is the weapon” & US re-industrialization.
15:40 Arsenal 1 megafactory in Ohio & becoming the “new defense prime.”
18:30 Just War theory, AI, & ethics of lethal autonomy
21:50 Palmer Luckey: Fury, the autonomous fighter jet beating primes
25:10 Optical camouflage
28:30 Palmer’s UAP theory
31:30 Matt Grimm: from lost luggage garage to 7,000 employees, 30+ offices globally
34:30 Ghost Shark / XL UUV, dev test lab: “we break things on purpose.”
37:30 Menace and Titan
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