Castelion's Ex-SpaceX Founders Are Building Missiles From Auto Chips And Fracking Tubes
Reuters reports defense startups are borrowing from commercial supply chains to attack the Pentagon's rocket motor bottleneck.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Reuters
Why it matters
The defense-tech boom is moving from software and prototypes into audited factories. Castelion's bet is that commercial supply chains can become a Pentagon advantage, but only if they survive certification and scale.
Bryon Hargis, Sean Pitt and Andrew Kreitz have turned Castelion into the cleanest test of a defense-tech premise now moving from pitch deck to production line: the fastest way to build more missiles may be to stop buying every part like a traditional missile contractor.…