Manufacturing is just death by a thousand paper cuts and it's also just really, really overlooked.

When America was crushing it in the Apollo era, we got to the moon quick. We can't go back to the moon.

Decades later at the same speed that we did when a computer was like the size of the room.

Everyone operates like we're still the industrial superpower and we're making really

poor decisions because of it. There's another phrase when you're fed you're not hungry and I think

this is why we don't build things fast enough in the US. If a carrier fleet went across Taiwan and we had to

ship a bunch of missiles over there and fire them, our entire inventory of every munition in the country

would last three days and then it would take us three years to replace it. If we don't do it now,

who's going to do it 30 years later? America is a country of immense wealth. But we're also a country

that's gotten used to wire harnesses on the back of airline seats that cost $10,000 apiece.

Or, as of 2022, building one commercial ship

compared to nearly 800 comparable ships in China. Or Boeing Starliner that cost over a billion

dollars and the heavily reported on failure. You'll hear more about all three of those things

in today's episode. But of course, it's not all doom and gloom.

There are tons of companies working toward rebuilding our industrial base,

including three founders you'll hear from today.

From this recording at LA Tech Week.

We have Jordan Black from Senra Systems, Chris Power from Hadrian,

and Ryan Hargis from Castellian.

That was Oliver Sue, partner on our American Dynamism team who moderated this conversation with...

I'm Jordan Black, CEO's Center Systems.

We designed to manufacture wire harnesses and probably everyone in this room is asking themselves,

...