Naia New Am Indus Alliance
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I was there for a day in the Philippines with everyone.
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They’re, they’re excited, what you guys are doing.
9:22
That sounds a lot like a startup city....
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that this stuff could travel to the White House.
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[Gil] In September 2024, there was a conference at Fort Mason
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in San Francisco called Reboot 2024,
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and its website announced that we are now in a new reality.
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And that Silicon Valley was waking up and about to become this powerful force in politics.
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And the guest speaker was Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation
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who was the guy who had shepherded Project 2025.
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So here you had tech VCs in San Francisco...
kishner
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for maritime prosperity zones,
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districts on American soil with fewer regulations
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for corporations to build ships and reinvigorate the industrial base.
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Then there's the New American Industrial Alliance,
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a tech industry interest group pushing for unrestricted data center growth.
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They were listed as co-sponsors of the Blueprint for America,
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lobbying for prosperity zones on American soil.
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A plan to sell federal and public land to private companies
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to build low regulation, low tax havens for progress.
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Their co-sponsor on the Blueprint was the company behind Prospera in Honduras,
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whose lobbying disclosures show they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars
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pushing for prosperity zones.
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But they also spent big on begging the American government for handouts of your money.
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They've lobbied on refunding the US International Development Financial Corporation,
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a government organization run by Epstein associate Ben Black
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that uses tax dollars to invest in American companies abroad.
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That's privatized foreign aid.
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And they might finally get their way.
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Black went to Honduras and promised investment in real estate and technology there,
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including an investment in La Ceiba, which is slated to be absorbed by Prospera.
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But it's more than just government handouts.
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Partnerships and acquisitions
Hadrian established a supply and manufacturing partnership with Anduril Industries, aiming at producing precision components for Anduril's autonomous defense systems and supporting scalable hardware production.[13]
Alongside Palantir, 8VC, General Catalyst, Oklo Inc., Dirac and Atomic Industries, Hadrian is a founding member of the New American Industrial Alliance (NAIA), a trade organization founded in 2024.[14][15][16] The other members are also defense contractors and hardtech companies, such as Anduril, Andreessen Horowitz, Narya Capital, Booz Allen, Joby Aviation, Regent Craft and Impulse Space, which hope to reduce government regulations.[17][18]
In 2025, Hadrian acquired Datum Source, a software firm launched by SpaceX alumni that leverages AI to connect hardware companies with the right manufacturing partners.[19][20][21]
Influence
Media outlets have cited Hadrian as part of a trend to reindustrialize American manufacturing and accelerate procurement for defense hardware, especially to counter rising geopolitical competition from countries like China.[22][23][24][3]
Chris Power, the CEO, told Bloomberg that many Silicon Valley tech leaders had long held an impression that the government was a "big slow-moving beast that is not worth really engaging with", but in recent years, the government has been moving to a new model that emphasizes missions and provides incentives, instead of requiring companies to do strictly defined jobs.[23]
In 2025, Breaking Defense remarks that Hadrian is still relatively small in comparison with more-established defense startups, having attained $3 million in revenue in 2024.[5] Hadrian's methods and technology is considered more nimble than those of traditional manufacturing companies.[3][25] It claims that with its Opus software, it can bring its factories online within a short period (around six months).[3][26] Los Angeles Business Journal comments on the company's Factory-as-a-Service model: "Instead of giant warehouses filled with machines, Hadrian's factories operate much like a big computer, with every system speaking to the other to complete manufacturing processes autonomously."[25] Manufacturing Today remarks that while Hadrian's system offers faster, more reliable component supply, with end-to-end automation, it faces competition with other innovators like Relativity Space, which focuses on different technologies such as 3D printing to improve rocket components. Challenges also lie in scaling and dealing with cyber threats.[22]
The Australian Financial Review remarks that Hadrian, like other new military industrial players such as Anduril, benefits from business and political connections to the investor Peter Thiel, members of the Trump administration and Trump family, including investments from the 1789 Capital, where Donald Trump Jr. serves as a partner.[27] It is also a company linked to Andreessen Horowitz's American Dynamism initiative and the venture capital firm's influential tech investor and writer Katherine Boyle.[28] The New Yorker writes that in supporting companies like Hadrian and Castelion (hypersonic missiles), Boyle is promoting the idea that "America is good, and that building things that make the country stronger and safer is also good—both morally and financially", and that strengthening the defense sector is also compatible with good family values.[29]