Pentagon · Anduril · U.S. · Fortune Technology
That means the U.S. has to buy and train about 200 dogs today to field 100 working animals later
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Lamm described the plan in stages.
Key facts
- Ben Lamm is the co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas de-extinction company that announced in April 2025 it had brought back the dire wolf, a predator that died out more than 10,000
- The backers are In-Q-Tel, Sequoia Capital, ARK Invest, Franklin Templeton, 8VC, USIT, Bob Nelsen, Breyer Capital, CAZ Investments, Neogenesis, Builders VC and Lux Capital, among others
- Today the Department of War’s Military Working Dog Program has more than 2,200 dog teams, according to the company, and more than 80% of U.S. military working dogs are bought from Europe
- That means the U.S. has to buy and train about 200 dogs today to field 100 working animals later
Summary
The Colossal and Anduril founders want to clone, gene-edit and armor America’s working dogs, and bring the supply chain home from Europe. The U.S. military’s oldest autonomous system has a supply-chain problem: most of its dogs come from Europe. Ben Lamm is the co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas de-extinction company that announced in April 2025 it had brought back the dire wolf, a predator that died out more than 10,000 years ago. Lamm and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey think the same tools, plus defense hardware, can fix that. The backers are In-Q-Tel, Sequoia Capital, ARK Invest, Franklin Templeton, 8VC, USIT, Bob Nelsen, Breyer Capital, CAZ Investments, Neogenesis, Builders VC and Lux Capital, among others.