EP 115 — WAR Inc's Jon Williams On Building a Defense Company Backwards, From IP to Factory

Jon Williams took ownership of technical data packs for munitions from 40 millimeter to 1,000 pound bombs. WAR Inc. is building a single facility where raw materials go in one end and a complete round comes out the other.

A combat Marine who served in Fallujah and Sangin before stints at Microsoft and a professional race team, Jon breaks down how frontline feedback from Ukraine drives new munitions development and why American-owned manufacturing is non-negotiable for the DIB.

Topics discussed:

- Owning technical data packs for munitions from 40mm to 1,000 lb bombs

- Building vertically integrated manufacturing for complete rounds

- Using frontline feedback from Ukraine to develop new TDPs

- Project ONI consortium for full system-of-systems delivery

- Why deployable manufacturing may not pencil for real operations

- Pushing past 80-year-old munition designs with new technology

- Keeping defense manufacturing American-owned and American-built

- Raising capital as a lean veteran-owned defense company

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