Defense technology is booming within the USA. Start-ups that construct drones, rockets and AI systems compete with established firms for a chunk of the US defense budget. Are these recent participants the long run of the defense industry? John Thornhill hears about investors and founders, and we visit the neighborhood of El Segundo in Los Angeles, which the Silicon Valley of Defense Tech calls.
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The age of the drone warfare disturbs the defense industry
The US defense industry, which worked for the tech release under Trump
The appetite for US defense technology is growing
This episode of Tech Tonic is produced by Peris Love. Edwin Lane is the senior producer. The executing producers are Manuela Saragosa and Topher Forhecz. Sound design by Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco and Joseph Salcedo. Original music of metaphor music. Cheryl Brumley is the worldwide audio director of the FT.
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