EP 89 — Anduril's Shane Arnott on Eliminating Design Review Theater through Equal Financial Risk
Australia and Anduril each put $50 million into Ghost Shark. That 50/50 split eliminated the customer-contractor power imbalance and got the vehicle in the water in 12 months, whereas the US Navy's ORCA program took nearly a decade to reach the same milestone. When Anduril couldn't solve biofouling on control surfaces, they walked into a design review and said it. The Australian government's science organization brought research from facilities across the Asia-Pacific to fix it. No grading. No theater. Shared risk created actual partnership.
Shane Arnott, SVP of Programs & Engineering…
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