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- 安杜里尔董事长批评美国在移民、医疗和教育方面的立法失败
- 他表示，硅谷对五角大楼工作的抵制帮助了中国和其他对手
- 安杜里尔在俄亥俄州斥资10亿美元的Arsenal-1园区开始生产
华盛顿，3月24日（路透社） – 国防科技公司安杜里尔工业公司（Anduril Industries）联合创始人特蕾·斯蒂芬斯（Trae Stephens）周二猛烈批评美国立法者，警告称国会失灵和硅谷傲慢正在让中国在军事和技术霸权竞争中获得战略突破口。
在华盛顿举行的”国会山与硅谷论坛”上，斯蒂芬斯对数百名高管和政策制定者表示，美国在与北京的”专制政权高科技军备竞赛”中落后，责任完全在自身。
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“我们的联邦政府没有履职，”斯蒂芬斯说，”它没有帮助我们打造伟大项目，没有解决难题。坦率地说，它已经放弃了岗位。”
斯蒂芬斯是总部位于旧金山的风投公司Founders Fund的合伙人，同时也是总部位于加州科斯塔梅萨的安杜里尔董事长，安杜里尔是硅谷支持的最大国防科技公司之一。
在会议上，他列举了美国几代人的立法失败：移民改革方面，70%-80%的美国人支持全面改革，但国会40年来未通过任何实质性法案；医疗领域，美国人均支出是其他民主国家的两倍，但结果更差；教育方面，美国教育水平已跌出前十，在数学和科学领域”远远落后于竞争对手”，而人工智能正在颠覆应届毕业生的就业市场。
他对基础设施支出尤为严厉，称近期芯片和清洁能源法案中分配的超过1万亿美元，只造出” handful of lousy EV充电 stations（几个糟糕的电动汽车充电站），连一座完整的芯片工厂都没建成”。
“我这辈子都没看到人类重返月球，”斯蒂芬斯说，”在21世纪，’这太难了’或’别人会做’不再是借口。”
斯蒂芬斯认为，立法者在技术变革面前存在结构性滞后，举例称：脸书（Facebook）拥有20亿用户时才出台首部平台监管法规；无人机成为战争武器多年后才立法规范其国内威胁使用；数万亿美元加密货币交易在政府明确其性质前已完成。
“如果你只有锤子，所有问题都像钉子，”他说，”当你的主要工具是调查和舆论影响时，制定的规则往往在生效时就已过时。”
但斯蒂芬斯对科技行业同样尖锐，称硅谷多年来抵制五角大楼项目，反而帮助对手变强。他回忆2010年代软件工程师抵制Maven项目时，科技界部分人士却助力中国变得”更强、更富、更有能力”。
“这个决定没有道德中立可言，”他强调。
他的这番言论正值安杜里尔本周在俄亥俄州哥伦布市南边的新园区开始生产。该园区斥资10亿美元，预计未来十年将创造4000多个就业岗位。工厂初期将生产公司的FURY自主作战无人机，这是安杜里尔参与美国空军”协同作战飞机”项目的产品，该项目旨在将无人平台与人类战斗机飞行员配对使用。
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Co-founder of defense tech firm Anduril says US legislative failures are giving China a strategic edge
March 24, 2026 5:58 PM UTC / Reuters
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- Anduril chairman criticizes U.S. legislative failures on immigration, healthcare and education
- He says Silicon Valley’s resistance to Pentagon work aids China and other adversaries
- Anduril starts production at $1 billion Arsenal-1 campus in Ohio
WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) – Trae Stephens, co-founder of defense technology firm Anduril Industries, sharply criticized American lawmakers on Tuesday, warning that congressional dysfunction and Silicon Valley arrogance were handing China a strategic opening in the race for military and technological supremacy.
Speaking at the Hill and Valley Forum in Washington, Stephens told hundreds of executives and policymakers that the United States had no one but itself to blame for falling behind in what he called a “high-tech arsenal of autocracy” race with Beijing.
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“Our federal government is not doing its job,” Stephens said. “It does not help us build great things. It does not solve hard problems. Frankly, it has abandoned its post.”
Stephens is a partner at San Francisco-based venture capital firm Founders Fund and the chairman of Costa Mesa, California-based Anduril, one of the largest defense tech companies backed by Silicon Valley.
At the conference, he ticked through what he called a generation of U.S. legislative failure. On immigration, he said that 70 to 80% of Americans support comprehensive reform and yet Congress has passed nothing meaningful in 40 years.
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On healthcare, he said the United States spends roughly double what peer democracies spend, with worse outcomes. On education, he said the U.S. has fallen out of the top 10 in educational attainment and is “lagging far behind competitors in math and science” just as artificial intelligence is upending the labor market for recent graduates.
He was particularly withering on infrastructure spending, telling the audience that more than a trillion dollars allocated under recent chip and green-energy legislation had produced little more than “a handful of lousy EV charging stations and not a single fully built chips fab.”
“We haven’t even sent a man to the moon in my lifetime,” Stephens said. “‘It’s too hard’ or ‘someone else is going to do this’ aren’t excuses that cut it anymore in the 21st century.”
Stephens argued that lawmakers were structurally incapable of keeping pace with technological change, saying that Facebook had 2 billion users before the first platform regulation was put in place, that drones became weapons of war before any laws governed their use against domestic threats, and that trillions of dollars in cryptocurrency changed hands before the government could agree on what it was.
“If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail,” he said. “When your main tools are investigations and the bully pulpit, the rules they write are often already obsolete by the time they take effect.”
But Stephens was equally sharp toward the technology industry, arguing that Silicon Valley’s years of resistance to Pentagon work had helped adversaries grow stronger. He recalled how software engineers pushed back against projects like Project Maven in the 2010s while parts of the technology establishment helped enable China to become “stronger, richer and more capable.”
“There is no moral neutrality in that decision,” he said.
His remarks came as Anduril this week began production at its new $1 billion Arsenal-1 manufacturing campus south of Columbus, Ohio, which is expected to employ more than 4,000 people over the next decade. The facility will initially produce the company’s FURY autonomous combat drone, Anduril’s entry for the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, which pairs uncrewed platforms with human fighter pilots.
Reporting by Mike Stone in Washington and David Jeans in New York; Editing by Matthew Lewis
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