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Great team. Excited to see leaders like @skupor and @DoWCTO leading this effort. Congrats Scott and Emil!

“Examine this flourishing province in whatever light you will, the eyes as well as the mind of a European traveller are equally delighted; because a diffusive happiness appears in every part: happiness which is established on the broadest basis.” -Letters from An American Farmer

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An update from Mission Control: yesterday’s progress and what’s next for Reason-1 and the Cowboy team.

It takes *thousands* of suppliers to build one missile, one aircraft, one ship, or one drone. At the top of the chain is the company that delivers the finished technology. Beneath it, makers of engines and guidance sensors, actuators and battery packs, circuit cards, and the machine shops that mill, coat, and heat-treat every part. Silicon Valley funded the top. @ConnorLoveCA and Collen Larson on the case for the rest: a16z.news/p/the-case-for-the…

America has 16,876 machine shops. 83% employ fewer than 20 people. Just nine employ more than 500. New defense companies are moving from prototypes to mass production, and every missile, drone, ship, and rocket they ultimately produce needs to run through one of these small shops. That friction is a national security liability. Connor Love and Collen Larson on the next generation of American manufacturing that gets built by smoothing it: a16z.news/p/the-case-for-the…

Excellent article. Haven't seen a better primer on how to think about the defense supply chain and manufacturing overall. Making parts in America is not easy, and it is far more than setting up new machines and factories. It requires engineering, just the right amount of tribal knowledge, inventing new production processes -- and, most importantly, creative ways to finance the time and capital it takes to scale. Building something durable, especially in the physical world, is not for the faint of heart. Exciting to see companies like us @AmcaInc and @HadrianInc figure it out in real time.

Reason 1 Updates Thread: We’ve made first contact with Reason-1. Initial operations are now underway on Cowboy Space’s first mission. Our power-beaming payload is integrated onto an @Apex_Spacecraft bus.

Another Apex platform is operational in orbit. @CowboySpaceCorp's Reason-1 spacecraft has achieved sun acquisition, is power-positive, and has full bidirectional comms. All systems are nominal, with initial contact made within 10 minutes of separation from the launch vehicle. The bus is happy and healthy — commissioning is now underway. Congratulations to our partners at Cowboy Space on this important milestone. With Aries production rate currently at multiple deliveries per month, it's incredibly rewarding to see the regular cadence of customer vehicles heading to orbit, entering operations, and enabling our customers to unlock the future. Five Aries deployed and counting. Go Aries. Go Apex.

Making the 13 year old version of myself proud

“It is odd when one thinks of it, that there are people in this world who having renounced all the laws of God and Nature themselves make laws which they rigorously obey.” -Blaise Pascal

Reason-1 has successfully separated from @SpaceX's Falcon 9. Cowboy Space is officially in orbit. Initial operations are underway. Stay tuned for updates.

The baby’s mere arrival will make clear to the big boys, as nothing else has, just how much older than a baby they are. How much more they can do. They’ll teach their little sibling things. They’ll learn to be gentle. And the baby will learn to be tough. (Because they won’t always be so gentle.) They’ll all tease each other in ways that appall you. You’ll intervene when it becomes too much. But really, they’ll be toughening each other for life. But there’s something else, and it’s big. You’ve mentioned what your husband wants and what you want. You haven’t considered what your boys might stand to gain. Yes, they will lose some of your attention, especially in the beginning. But with just one additional child, you’ll have doubled the number of siblings each current son has. Doubled the number of relatives deeply connected to each of them for life. Doubled their sources of belonging, support, and love—of mishaps and nicknames and jokes about the teachers none of them could stand. You won’t even have access to all of it. Some of it, they’ll preserve in their own special language, locked away from parental oversight. That’s part of the joy. Don’t try to crack the shell and examine it all. Leave it be. That’s their special world.

Saronic is arguably one of the most important companies building right now. Every powerful nation throughout history has one thing in common: a strong Navy. America's first war after the Revolution was against the Barbary pirates of North Africa, who demanded payment for freedom of movement through vital shipping lanes. At its worst, America was paying roughly 20% of total government revenue in tributes and ransoms just so merchant ships wouldn't be seized. Washington signed the Naval Act of 1794, authorizing six frigates, including the famed USS Constitution. It fell to Thomas Jefferson (an anti-federalist who opposed a standing military) to use them. He understood that for America to survive, it had to project power with a competent, well trained Navy to secure its economic interests. The US Navy and Marines defeated the Barbary pirates and secured the trade routes. Becoming a superpower required technological innovation in shipbuilding. Two hundred years later, America has begun to cede its shipbuilding advantage to our adversaries. To give that up is to give up the key trade routes of the world, not just our own. Saronic is building to change that. Port Alpha will be the largest shipyard in America, manufacturing the ships that sail this nation into the next generation of dominance. God Bless America

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Elon Musk's full discussion with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at the america.gov launch event.

PROJECT MERIDIAN will provide the transformative vision to secure American dominance across every future warfighting domain. American warriors will be armed with absolute technological superiority because we have the foresight of disruptive minds TODAY. 🇺🇸

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Today, alongside Vice President @JDVance and Governor @GregAbbott_TX we broke ground on Port Alpha in Brownsville, Texas. Port Alpha is a new model for American shipbuilding: a shipyard designed from the ground up to build autonomous and manned ships at speed and scale. Backed by more than $3 billion in private investment, it is expected to create up to 10,000 direct jobs in Texas. We’re proud to begin this work with the Brownsville community and our partners across Texas. Read more: medium.com/saronic-technolog…