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

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceoofwar/"><u>Jon Williams</u></a> took ownership of technical data packs for munitions from 40 millimeter to 1,000 pound bombs. <a href="https://war.inc/"><u>WAR Inc</u></a>. is building a single facility where raw materials go in one end and a complete round comes out the other.</p><p>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.</p><p>Topics discussed:</p><p>- Owning technical data packs for munitions from 40mm to 1,000 lb bombs</p><p>- Building vertically integrated manufacturing for complete rounds</p><p>- Using frontline feedback from Ukraine to develop new TDPs</p><p>- Project ONI consortium for full system-of-systems delivery</p><p>- Why deployable manufacturing may not pencil for real operations</p><p>- Pushing past 80-year-old munition designs with new technology</p><p>- Keeping defense manufacturing American-owned and American-built</p><p>- Raising capital as a lean veteran-owned defense company</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Listen to more episodes: </strong></p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dib-innovators/id1720062726"><u>Apple </u></a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5Z3PpCHsglA3uk2S6dCRBP"><u>Spotify </u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2eBOnzz1SX0Psj6BmbdCw"><u>YouTube</u></a></p><p><a href="https://radicl.com/dib-innovators-podcast"><u>Website</u></a></p>