Britt

mfg/remfg // startups // sm biz // Texas Supremacy

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

Manufacturers, at any stage, I beg of you:
Talk to your city.
Talk to your economic development dept. Talk to your chamber.
Talk to your community colleges.
Talk to your city council.
Talk to your industry neighbors.

These are the people who know & decide what's happening.

[Erik Bruckner @E_Bruxxx]

Founder Mode: Manufacturing Edition
> Design for high-throughput, not prototypes
> Build BOMs like you're already at 10k units
> Audit your Tier 2s before Tier 1s flake
> Lead times will slip — design buffers
> Don’t wait for DoD to ask about ITAR — be ready
> Architect ERP before ops chaos hits
> Choose your factory location like it’s a cofounder
> Talk to your city before you pitch investors

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

@BishopAerospace Amazing! Congrats, y'all all worked so hard on that!!

[Bishop Aerospace @BishopAerospace]

For those of you following the DARPA Heavy Lift the team I was a part of Portal Aircraft just won the prize most innovative drivetrain. Wooohoooo. Wild!!

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

@BishopAerospace Yes! If you're comfortable with AI you can do this w CMMC1, most QMS, safety, etc.

If you're not comfortable w AI, get comfortable.

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

@StretchGoat_ @BishopAerospace Everywhere in Texas is only a few hour drive, come on up

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

Real jobs I've had:
Selling Costco candy from a backpack
"Phone girl" at a pizza place
Manager at a pizza place

Fake jobs I've had:
Vice President
Executive Director
Program Coordinator

[Jim Belosic @jimbelosic]

real jobs I’ve had:
selling costco candy on the bus
lawn mower
car detailer
sign painter
estimator at a sign shop
forklift operator at office depot
pancake artist
manufacturing business owner

fake jobs I’ve had:
selling radio advertising
b2b saas

[@DoW_CIO @DoW_CIO]

The DoW is immediately suspending CMMC Phase II requirements to clear bureaucratic roadblocks for the DIB.

We must scale warfighter readiness, not paperwork.

What you need to know:
· Phase II & costly administrative burdens are paused.
· Phase I self-assessments remain firmly in place.
· NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2 and DFARS 252.204-7012 compliance are still required.
· Focus is shifting to tangible cybersecurity and operational resilience, not red tape.

To uplift cybersecurity while eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy, we’ve launched a 60-day review on the future of the program to be led by a CMMC Reform Task Force. We are also seeking industry perspectives from the DIB via our new RFI on driving scalable, realistic security measures and operational resilience without compliance burden.

Watch the full remarks from @DoWCIODavies below.

Read the press release: https://t.co/2P2UMcj4YW

Learn More: https://t.co/SOuRnngKbX

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

*slaps hood*

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

@YIMBYLAND Texas Supremacy

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

@HiLanden Tons in texas

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

@zanehengsperger @noxmetals I know a bunch of shops that would love to apply for this and do great work, but still aren't on X yet

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

@zanehengsperger Shouts out for Interconnect Wiring - awesome company that supports their neighbors!

[NASA @NASA]

LIVE: They are coming home.

Watch as the Artemis II crew returns to Earth, splashing down at around 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11). https://t.co/n3vZE2rcFv

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

@daniipreneur Painfully accurate. Small pockets of us working on building market driven workforce engines, but it's not fast enough.

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

@danielmitchell @reindsummit Please do this

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

@andrewkornuta Love the industrialist papers!

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

Most small to mid size manufacturers don't need more workforce, they need to lean their processes

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

The US shipbuilding workforce is huge (~120,000 people), of similar size to Japan (140,000) or South Korea (180,000), both of which produce literally hundreds of times more ship.

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

@ChadowskiIsBack More or less workforce would have no impact on that tho. Leaning processes is about doing more with same for less cost.

[Britt @andiwillgototx]

@YIMBYLAND Yes! Bring back starter homes!

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

How it feels building on the frontier.

[Mac Spiller @macspiller]

If the US is going to reindustrialize, we need lots of manufacturing startups.

The problem is, starting a company that actually makes things here is SUPER hard. Plus you have to compete with cheap imports.

We can make stuff at scale in the US again... but only if we help each other.

So my company is giving away a free American-made transformer to a deserving factory startup. Up to 1000 kVA.

It's just one piece of building (or rebuilding) a factory, but it's our little way of helping the next gen of American manufacturers get started.

If your building something important, shoot me an email, or pass it along to someone who is: [email protected]

@reindsummit