"My cofounder and I officially founded West Tek Defense Corporation in August 2022. We were doing smart rifles for the military. It was complicated. (At one point, we were literally balancing redox equations for propellant in the ammo.) The physics background we both had helped a lot; essentially, everything we saw was something we'd encountered in a class or during personal research. We spent about three years on the entire process. Ultimately, we found out it wasn't going to work - mostly because of regulation."
"We spoke to the head of the civilian side of procurement for the bid, and we were flat-out told something like: "There's no reason for us to consider you. We don't even care." For us to even find the contact for who was running the bid, it was a bunch of dead links. We had to go pester extremely high officials to get us the appropriate contact."
Two cofounders launched West Tek Defense Corporation in August 2022 to develop smart rifles for a Canadian military procurement. The team applied physics knowledge and spent about three years on development, including balancing propellant redox equations. Procurement channels were opaque, contacts were dead links, and officials declined to consider the startup. Canadian licensing required a contract before issuing a BFL, creating a catch-22. Risk-averse investors and regulatory hurdles halted progress, leading the founder to close the company and later form Yellowcake, incorporating the new business in the United States.
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