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I’ll admit I skimmed, but I’m skeptical of the idea that software is the magic key to getting manufacturing going strong in the USA again. Instead we should be

I’ll admit I skimmed, but I’m skeptical of the idea that software is the magic key to getting manufacturing going strong in the USA again. Instead we should be de-stigmatizing trade work and investing in developing manufacturing skill in our workforce. For instance, brother is a machinist who saves his employer a great deal of money fixing manufacturing machines, however this is a dying art held up by just a few people who love it and take pride in it. Pride in good work through good communication between people is what is needed to make things run smoothly. Don’t agile it, or worse Amazon Iron Sensei it. C’mon, this is supposed to be the land of the free.

TeaBrain 2y ago
From reading the article, it seems that they define their edge more as being able to leverage the existing market of cost-effective consumer components and more common consumer grade manufacturing in order to create modular defense technology with the help of software, rather that create an expensive manufacturing pipeline from the ground up like legacy defense companies. Their Lattice software is used to figure out how to integrate these more cost effective components and manufacturing practices.