Hadrian CEO @2112Power wants to become the "adoption path" for startups that can't afford the years-long process of getting new technologies qualified for defense production.
"We're really good at figuring out where new manufacturing methods and technologies will and won't work, and how to get them qualified with the government. For most startups, that's a three-year journey."
"We're hoping that we can actually accelerate the adoption of new casting techniques, new additive techniques, and new types of laser welding techniques that exist, but haven't really scaled because they're throttled by government requirements."
"It takes a year and 30 people to even get the engineering records submitted to get a new welding method across the line as a qualified thing that you can put in a factory for defense or aerospace... We hope to be a really strong adoption path for those small companies that just can't eat the qualification cycle with the factories and service partnerships."
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