Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, August 20th.

Today on Forbes, this high-tech factory makes parts for rockets and fighter jets 10 times faster.

At Hadrian's Torrance, California, jets 10 times faster.

At Hadrian's Torrance, California factory,

the machines keep working after their operators go home.

Swing by after hours, and you'll see them,

displays a glow as they crank out parts in the dark.

Chris Power, Hadrian's 33-year-old founder and CEO, said quote,

we're running 24-7. There's a crew of people during the day and then it just runs itself.

That's what our software does for manufacturing.

Power's vision is somewhat different from other startups building tech to make other companies factories

more efficient.

He's developed proprietary software to run Hadrian's own factory, which allows it to churn

out all types of precision metal parts

for aerospace, space, and defense companies

faster, more efficiently, and with fewer people.

Now he wants to build out a network of cookie cutter

high-tech machine shops across the country to build out a network of cookie cutter high-tech machine shops across the country

to shake up a giant and fragmented industry. That's a difficult and capital-intensive

project, but one that Power argues is crucial for America's industrial base.

Investors, including Andresen Harowitz, Founders Fund, and Lux Capital, have bet $180 million on it,

and the company is now worth roughly $500 million.

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