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i used to be an outdoor kid then i
discovered computers and i became an
indoor kid
i really like working with all kinds of
various hardware systems so
gas lasers solid state lasers optics
displays
modifying old game consoles modifying
new game consoles
my name is palmer lucky i started my
career when i founded a virtual reality
company called
oculus vr i sold that to facebook for a
few billion dollars and when i got fired
i started anderle so that i could work
on autonomous systems for national
security
the united states for a long time has
enjoyed a position
as the dominant technological force in
the world
that's starting to change we have
strategic adversaries who are
rapidly surpassing us or have already
surpassed us in a lot of areas
that's where our company comes in at
anderle we build the things that the
government does not yet believe are
possible
we want to build a defense product
company with the best people from the
technology industry
working on defense problems in the right
way so that we can get things out there
very quickly at very low cost and
actually make an impact
this year rather than 10 years from now
what we're trying to do is provide
warfighters with
very recent very actionable very
reliable intelligence about
everything that is going on around them
because when you have better information
you will always make better decisions
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i got back from afghanistan last year
during that time i was flying blackhawks
piloting managing teams
you never want to be in a position where
you have to make a decision and you just
don't have the knowledge available to
you
it is something that is very near and
dear to me to make sure that our
products are things that
are actually creating good in the world
the world would be a very different
place
if in the 60s we didn't have the level
of focus and effort behind developing
technology solutions to protect our
allies what's
a little disheartening is in modern
times the best and the brightest are not
working on these kinds of problems
they're working on ads
so what we have here is an integrated
facility where there is everything that
we need to go from napkin sketch
to a fully developed hardware and
software product that is going out the
door and overseas
in a lot of ways this is kind of like an
amusement park for an engineer
the pace at which we solve some of these
problems is dizzying in some ways
so anderl moves extremely quickly i've
been here multiple times where you see
something
on a monday and it's just an idea and
then you see a prototype of it on friday
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the capistrano test site is hugely
important for a company like ours
it's about 2 700 acres we're able to
test our hardware and our software
in real world conditions with our
engineers
so ghost is a battery powered small uas
it does vertical takeoff and landing
it can fly for almost two hours
virtually silent but i don't want to get
bogged down in the specifics of what the
airframe does because it's really more
about lattice and the ability to
have all of your feeds interconnected
our core product is something that we
call lattice it's an ai-powered sensor
fusion network
that can take data from hundreds or
thousands of different sensors across
land sea air ground and merge them into
a single
common operating picture that all of the
people can reference and all the
machines can reference
you know showing what's going on not
just now but what's going to be
happening in the future
so you can have our sentry towers you
can have ghosts all operating within the
same
area and then it alerts you when there's
something there that needs your action
so normally you would have 10 or 15
people looking at all different screens
and trying to fuse that information
together
we're able to fuse those tracks into one
user interface have one person looking
at that
and the ability to connect all those
things and make
an operating picture to provide you
better situational awareness
is something that other companies are
just not doing
like every other company we have
sketches we have ideas we have things
that we want to work on
the difference here is that we don't
take those sketches and then go to the
government and ask them to help us make
them
if we believe it's the right thing that
needs to exist we're going to make it
exist regardless of whether or not
people believe it's possible or are
willing to give us money
that's a pretty unique thing in the
defense space and
i'm gonna make sure that we never lose
that so
i'm working on defense technology
because i believe in it because i
think it's important to work on and
because not enough people are working on
it and i'm one of the people who's
blessed with the resources
to actually have a shot at making a
difference
i could see the impact of the problems i
was working on
directly where you're protecting our
nation's security
keeping our bases safe i think andrew
has the potential to make
incredible impact in the world i've been
deployed multiple times just being able
to see
that sometimes you're not able to make
decisions as quickly as you want to and
sometimes that has dire effects
you want to make sure that you have all
the knowledge at your fingertips so that
you make the correct decision
it's going to be pretty monumental what
we're able to do and
the impact that we have on the world at
large
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