Rob Slaughter

“Defense Unicorns, the Airgap Software Company, in partnership with the United States Air Force, successfully demonstrated a key enabler for continuous software delivery to the F-22 Raptor. For the first time, software in the F-22 open mission system compute enclave was installed and upgraded on the aircraft in a matter of minutes.” The next generation of warfare will be software defined. Your ability to update your software on demand is your ability to adjust and adapt in the battlefield. If you can deploy capabilities in real time, on-demand, and by the brave men and women serving in uniform operating these systems, you fundamentally have a capability none of our adversaries can keep up with. At Defense Unicorns we are making software a strategic deterrent. We can’t always talk about the technology and systems we support at Defense Unicorns 🦄 But every once in a while, we’re able to get an approved press release to give the world 🌎 a glimpse. Read more in the press release: lnkd.in/gT5T7WJ2

🚀Warhacker applications are OPEN! We’re calling on innovators from the military, industry, academia, and non-profits to join a first-of-its-kind working session built to break through real-world challenges. Applications are open now, don’t wait. defenseunicorns.com/warhacker/

Or maybe they just wanted @PenPizzaReport to be confused as to what was going on 🤷‍♂️

@JasonPLowery 🤩🤩🤩

@JTLonsdale @KatieMiller Keep up the good fight!!! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Trigger warning: we love liberty, we love our kids (we have lots of them), we believe in God, and we're fighting for our country. oh, and we have a lot of successful friends doing the same. Am a lucky guy, and proud of my amazing wife; great to chat with her with @KatieMiller

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The can’t upgrade the hardware because I can’t update the software doom spiral 🌀 is real

🚨 BIG NEWS INCOMING 🚨 Catch @RobCSlaughter, CEO of @DefenseUnicorns, live today at 4:30 PM EST on @TBPN with hosts @jordihays & @johncoogan. We’re making a major announcement! Tune in: tbpn.com

My CTOs so cracked he’d have refused to leave in the first place. Guess I don’t get it 🤷‍♂️ @BadCodeOnly

@hthieblot Bummer, just got to 14 last week…. @BadCodeOnly is at 12 tho if you want an underdog

The next billion-dollar founder has 13 followers on X rn. I will find you & fund you!

@dianalokada Founder mode is putting a ring 💍 on it and adding 4 kids

founders with HOT gf >> single founders. dudes grind harder when theres a bad bitch around

On the edge of my seat 🍿

@alex__chu__ Tank and airplane next!!!

Our master plan of starting a maritime defense tech company just to buy a boat finally paid off.

You’re a series A startup and Mark Zuckerberg just stole one of your AI researchers, does this mean your valuation just went up or just went down? 🤔 🧐

@damnGruz It comes in 3 new colors. Red, white, and blue all available

This is 36 year old tech btw. What do you think they have now?

Just a reminder on why nuclear weapons will forever drive national politics. The GBU-57, the “bunker buster” that was used operationally for the first time to target Iran’s nuclear sites, has a 5,300 pound explosive charge. That’s the equivalent of about 2 metric tons of TNT 🧨 For context, “Little Boy” the first nuclear bomb was 15KT (kilotons) or 15,000 tons of TNT. That’s about 10,000 more powerful than the GBU-57. Current nuclear ☢️ weapons for most countries ranges between 100 KT to 1MT (megaton), meaning most modern nuclear weapons are 10-100x more powerful than the ones first dropped in world war 2. To put that in perspective, that’s 100,000 to 1,000,000 times more powerful than the GBU-57. For more context, a firework is about 100 grams or 0.1 kg of TNT 🧨 Putting it on log scale: GBU-57 is about 4 orders of magnitude from a firework 🧨 GBU-57 is 5-6 orders of magnitude from a nuclear ☢️ bomb Meaning the GBU-57 has more in common with a firework 🎇 than a nuclear ☢️ weapon in terms of pure thermodynamic yield This is why nuclear bombs are very scary. And why threats of developing, using, or distributing nuclear weapons gets taken very seriously.

@mttgrmm F-35….. that’s the list

You're a defense tech founder? Name every program of record.

@JDVance the “justified” reasons go back several decades. Many decades ago when the United States consider Iran an ally, we partnered and built for them a research reactor. That research reactor used Uranium enriched to +20% U-235. While in the Air Force I got my masters and PhD from AFIT at wright Patterson AFB. At Wright Patt, there is a decommissioned nuclear reactor that was used originally to explore long range nuclear powered flights. That reactor used U-235 enriched to 20%, it was the same one we built from them ~ 5 decades previously. They have used this to justify their enrichment program for years. They needed to enrich uranium to 20% because that was what the reactor we gave them uses. The capability to go from natural uranium to 20% enriched U-235 is well on the way to weapons grade uranium. The lesson here is we should have never given them that reactor. And previous administrations are part of the problem. We should be VERY careful in our continued support of “dual use” technology around the world. From nuclear to biological technologies or well intended agreements/grants are actually just arming our enemies. When in doubt, don’t fund it. Dont transfer it. America First 🇺🇸

Look, I'm seeing this from the inside, and am admittedly biased towards our president (and my friend), but there's a lot of crazy stuff on social media, so I wanted to address some things directly on the Iran issue: First, POTUS has been amazingly consistent, over 10 years, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Over the last few months, he encouraged his foreign policy team to reach a deal with the Iranians to accomplish this goal. The president has made clear that Iran cannot have uranium enrichment. And he said repeatedly that this would happen one of two ways--the easy way or the "other" way. Second, I've seen a lot of confusion over the issue of "civilian nuclear power" and "uranium enrichment." These are distinct issues. Iran could have civilian nuclear power without enrichment, but Iran rejected that. Meanwhile, they've enriched uranium far above the level necessary for any civilian purpose. They've been found in violation of their non-proliferation obligations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is hardly a rightwing organization. It's one thing to want civilian nuclear energy. It's another thing to demand sophisticated enrichment capacity. And it's still another to cling to enrichment while simultaneously violating basic non-proliferation obligations and enriching right to the point of weapons-grade uranium. I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use. I've yet to see a single good argument for why Iran was justified in violating its non-proliferation obligations. I've yet to see a single good pushback against the IAEA's findings. Meanwhile, the president has shown remarkable restraint in keeping our military's focus on protecting our troops and protecting our citizens. He may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment. That decision ultimately belongs to the president. And of course, people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy. But I believe the president has earned some trust on this issue. And having seen this up close and personal, I can assure you that he is only interested in using the American military to accomplish the American people's goals. Whatever he does, that is his focus.

4 kids. Newborn in year 3 of startup life. The point of a startup is to build amazing things for the world 🌎 The point of a having kids is to ensure that the next generation also has humans that exist that continue to push for this evolution of humanity. It is two sides of the same coin and ultimately the same objective: Advance humanity

@ibuildthecloud It is the way

I wrote Java professionally for about 12 years or so. Rancher 1.x was in Java. I started my career working in a Fortune 50 financial company on their internet self service platform. I didn't start doing a startup until I was in my 30's and had 4 kids already.