Palantir achieved large scale primarily by using operations and maintenance (O&M) funds from individual commands, without a formal program manager until very recently.

Modern software can be deployed on military networks like SIPRNet and JWICS, allowing users to become productive within an hour, a significant departure from traditional multi-month deployments.

The aspiration for new defense technology companies is to achieve annual revenues in the tens of billions of dollars and become a primary source of combat power for the United States.

Companies like General Atomics have built their business around congressional adds, a funding mechanism that is not responsive to the Department of Defense's internal preferences.

Grant Demare believes the defense technology market will produce a small number of very large winners rather than 100 smaller ones, due to significant benefits of scale in distribution, congressional ...

By combining operational planning with wargaming, OneBrief can reduce a planning cycle that previously took several weeks down to about 10 minutes.

OneBrief acquired wargaming company Battle Road Digital three months ago to integrate wargaming with operational planning.

The pace of change in warfare, driven by technologies like AI, is now a more significant limiting factor for defense startups than the speed of Department of Defense procurement.