Andral Industries is a fast-growing defense tech startup founded by Oculus creator Palmer Lucky,

and is best known perhaps for attack drones, robot submarines, and unmanned fighter jets.

Valued at $14 billion last summer, the company has been forging further into another war fighting domain.

Space.

We see space as existential for the United States.

You know, in the next 10 to 20 years, our adversaries are going to launch more space

crafts into space than they have done in the last 70 combined.

And so this is increasingly becoming a contested domain where we're going to have to have eyes and ears on everything that's going on.

And that's really the area that we're seeing a lot of demand and why we're investing so heavily.

Gokal Submaranian is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Anderral focused on software and space.

Just last week, the company won a $100 million program of record contract to upgrade the U.S. Space Force's space surveillance network to autonomously process and distribute data from a global collection of military space sensors.

Andrell is moving fast. It already has payload on orbit, is developing its own spacecraft, and has been striking partnerships with commercial

space startups like Apex and Impulse Space.

We're seeing all of these small businesses, medium-sized businesses, who are working in the

commercial space sector, who don't really have the ability to transact with the U.S.

government and may not even understand the full set of mission needs that the U.S. government has.

And so we can operate as someone who can bring together and convene this set of companies.

We're calling it the team of super friends who could come in and bring together an offering

that is complete for the U.S. Space Force.

On this episode, Submaranium breaks down the startup's burgeoning space portfolio, the

strategy to build a quote, super friends, supply chain, and the plan to bring AI edge computing

to, well, the edge of space.

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