WT 360: Defense One’s Lauren Williams on shipbuilding, counterdrone and quantum tech matters
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Ross Wilkers
Lauren Williams, business editor at Defense One, jumps in to explain Anduril’s shipyard partnership with the Navy. She also goes over the Army’s counterdrone tech agenda and how the military is looking at quantum.
Anduril and the Navy are co-investing in a submarine component production plant that the service branch is hoping can be a boost to the country’s shipbuilding capacity.
Lauren Williams, business editor at Defense One, has extensively covered the Navy’s challenges regarding its efforts to increase shipbuilding throughput and joins for this episode to explain how this new shipyard is a part of that push.
What keeps Navy leaders up at night on the shipbuilding front? In talking with our Ross Wilkers, Lauren goes over the constraints that have built up over time and recommendations government auditors made to address them.
Lauren also takes listeners through a $4 billion Army counterdrone contract that includes a mix of known and lesser-known names, why the Air Force is talking about a large unmanned aerial tanker when that tech is years away, and how the military is looking at quantum.
Lauren authors Defense One’s Business Brief newsletter that goes out every Thursday. Click this link to subscribe.
