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  **Defense primes** are the large incumbent defense contractors that newer
  entrants like Anduril position themselves against in the channel's captured
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# defense primes

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/defense-primes-269b7baaabd7

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**Defense primes** are the large incumbent defense contractors that newer entrants like Anduril position themselves against in the channel's captured material [^a8fc1da7@].

The term appears in the *Not Boring* writer Packy McCormick's discussion of his **techno-industrial** investment thesis [^a8fc1da7@]. He describes **Anduril** — smaller, cheaper, software-infused hardware — as taking on cost-plus risk *against the defense primes*, delivering a better product to government. In that framing, the defense primes are the large incumbents that Anduril's model is built to compete with, and their weaknesses (sclerosis in incumbents like Boeing) are part of the “why now” behind the thesis.