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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by possiblelion on Thursday April 25, 2024 @05:30AM (#40155302)
Interesting perspective. Coming from the perspective of a non-US defence executive, I will have to say that failing demos are quite normal in defence applications. It happens, and you still win contracts, because the end client sees the value prop and trusts you to sort out the issues. Still nerve wrecking though.
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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by llamaimperative on Thursday April 25, 2024 @08:17AM (#40156576)
Not to mention an unscheduled demo. How often do software engineers have a reliably working local state of a repository that they could just start up and demo whenever someone walks by their desk?
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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by ninetyninenine on Thursday April 25, 2024 @11:12AM (#40158524)
Makes sense. The Chinese government will never launch an unscheduled attack. It’s always on my calendar.
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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by abenga on Thursday April 25, 2024 @11:22AM (#40158643)
One would hope all hiccups are worked out by the time the systems go into production.
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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by ninetyninenine on Thursday April 25, 2024 @11:29AM (#40158723)
This was a demo of a “production ready” system lol.
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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by dehugger on Thursday April 25, 2024 @03:57PM (#40162256)
That is information you probably should have included in your original comment.
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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by llamaimperative on Thursday April 25, 2024 @11:31AM (#40158757)
Was the system in operational readiness at this point in time? Sounds like it was in the middle of a sales process, based on the fact that you described it as part of the sales process.
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