Just got done reading Troy Thompson’s article on the Southeast as a frontier tech corridor and it pulled me back to this one. You’re making the case that we need to shift from machining to tool based manufacturing and run surge exercises to prove we can scale. Troy is essentially mapping where you’d run them. $80B in annual DoW spend already flowing through seven southeastern states, sitting in what he calls the “resilient band” where you can add manufacturing missions without building company towns. The pre positioning concept you lay out here, placing tooling at commercial manufacturers for rapid activation, fits almost perfectly onto the corridor he’s describing. Feels like two halves of the same argument. https://innoblepursuit.substack.com/p/frontier-tech-corridor-southeast
Really appreciate how aligned this is with where my own thinking has been headed. Given the defense industrial base’s designation as “critical national infrastructure” under NPM‑22, this kind of industrial wargaming and societal “T&E” feels like required governance, not a side experiment. Paired with increased compute, higher‑fidelity simulation, and more trackable data across the DIB, you can start to stand up a repeatable trial mechanism for industrial‑base wargaming that actually scales and can be audited.
I am working on a governance model that treats all 16 critical infrastructure sectors as interconnected sandboxes, running in parallel rather than in series, so we can see how the whole system flexes under stress instead of optimizing single nodes in isolation. Hoping to publish more about that in a few weeks, and it’s energizing to see how closely Marlinspike’s framing rhymes with where I believe frontier corridors must go.
Just got done reading Troy Thompson’s article on the Southeast as a frontier tech corridor and it pulled me back to this one. You’re making the case that we need to shift from machining to tool based manufacturing and run surge exercises to prove we can scale. Troy is essentially mapping where you’d run them. $80B in annual DoW spend already flowing through seven southeastern states, sitting in what he calls the “resilient band” where you can add manufacturing missions without building company towns. The pre positioning concept you lay out here, placing tooling at commercial manufacturers for rapid activation, fits almost perfectly onto the corridor he’s describing. Feels like two halves of the same argument. https://innoblepursuit.substack.com/p/frontier-tech-corridor-southeast
Really appreciate how aligned this is with where my own thinking has been headed. Given the defense industrial base’s designation as “critical national infrastructure” under NPM‑22, this kind of industrial wargaming and societal “T&E” feels like required governance, not a side experiment. Paired with increased compute, higher‑fidelity simulation, and more trackable data across the DIB, you can start to stand up a repeatable trial mechanism for industrial‑base wargaming that actually scales and can be audited.
I am working on a governance model that treats all 16 critical infrastructure sectors as interconnected sandboxes, running in parallel rather than in series, so we can see how the whole system flexes under stress instead of optimizing single nodes in isolation. Hoping to publish more about that in a few weeks, and it’s energizing to see how closely Marlinspike’s framing rhymes with where I believe frontier corridors must go.
I really like the exercises idea. I am surprised no one has pushed the manufacturing exercises idea further but they should.
I have been writing about the political and cultural side of this problem. Hope you can give it a look
https://lukechen.substack.com/p/abundance-for-defense