Anduril Industries: $20B Army Contract At 24 Years Old

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Anduril Industries: $20B Army Contract At 24 Years Old

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A 24-year-old who once considered making food from sewage-derived petroleum just landed a 20-billion-dollar Army contract — and buried inside it is something wilder than the number itself: 120 separate Pentagon procurement processes collapsed into one ordering mechanism any federal buyer can use. That is not a weapons deal, that is a hostile takeover of how the US military buys things. Palmer Luckey wrote in his first pitch deck that he would save Western civilization, and somehow the Army just handed him the keys to prove it.

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