Shyam Sankar

1/ We are in an undeclared state of emergency.

America's adversaries are circling, and the American industrial base that dominated the 20th century is dormant.

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Two years ago, I published The Defense Reformation. It was a warning: America was in an undeclared state of emergency and our defense industrial base wasn’t ready to meet the moment. The response I received from people in industry and government was overwhelming. Everyone who was paying attention knew the situation was bad—and they were fired up to fix it.

We’re still in a state of emergency, but there’s good news: the hard work of reform and mobilization has begun.

The founders and funders have shown up. The heretical heroes have momentum at the Pentagon. The Last Supper of defense consolidation is over and the First Breakfast has begun. New entrants are flooding the space and forcing legacy contractors to up their game.

America is entering a virtuous cycle of competition, iteration, and innovation. The Arsenal of Democracy is coming to life.

To celebrate two years of hard-fought progress, I’m giving away 180 free copies of my book with Madeline Hart, Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III.

Claim yours, read it, spread the good word, and get back in the fight:

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Applications for the next cohort of the American Tech Fellowship are live now! Apply today to build the future.

You know your industry up close and personal. You’ve stood on the polished concrete of the shop floor. Felt the rumble of creation at the build site. Lived the ordered chaos of the hospital during a code.

You know the work—and you know the bottlenecks. The paper tidal waves drowning your coworkers. The schedules and routines crying out for automation. The back-office drudgery keeping you and your team at your desks instead of in the action. Your boss may not know or care. But you do—and you’re ready to level up.

The American Tech Fellowship wants you.

ATF is Palantir’s 12-week virtual boot camp for workers in the load-bearing industries of American life: defense, manufacturing, construction, healthcare, ag, energy, and more.

In just over a year, ATF has equipped more than 1,000 Americans from across the country with the tools they need to revolutionize their work. We induct them into the guild, train them on Palantir’s industry-leading AI tools, and then unleash them to rock and roll on real-world problems.

We select only the best—and it shows. ATF graduates have gone on to great things. Many have earned new jobs and new missions at Palantir and our customers. Others have founded their own startups. All are building real tools with AI to solve the hardest problems.

So if you are on the front lines of American industry and you have the fire to deliver wins for your customers and fellow citizens—we want you.

Applications are open now. The cohort begins January 12th. What will you build?

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Are we ready? Are we serious?

This is an undeclared emergency. You thought you were still inside the secure bastion of the king’s castle. You have awoken in Helm’s Deep. The orc armies are coming.

Cathedral’s AI agents were inside Anthropic’s most sensitive model Slack channels in under 12 hours. Frontier AI is dual-use national power. Agent-speed offense has already outrun static defenses and private channels.

Build the post-AI secure bastion. Move what you can into it. Harden the crown jewels.

But deterrence is not restored by better walls alone. It is restored by American builders who can see the battlefield, operate at machine speed, and project both defense and offense.

Bat signal for the Heretics.