Jordan Crook

Jordan Crook is a technology journalist and former Deputy Editor at TechCrunch, where she wrote about startups, consumer technology, internet culture, and hosted or moderated TechCrunch event and livestream interviews.

Divergent Says Software-Defined Factories Can Build Drones in 71 Days

Lukas Czinger, co-founder of Divergent Technologies, argues that the bottleneck in defense hardware is not design but the tooling and fixed production lines that make iteration slow once a product leaves prototype. In a livestream interview, he said Divergent’s software-defined factory can move autonomous aircraft and other complex systems from digital design into production without rebuilding the supply chain around each change, citing a 71-day clean-sheet build of a flyable small uncrewed aircraft as proof of the model.

This Week in StartupsMay 22, 202618 min read