{"id":9201,"date":"2026-10-23T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9201"},"modified":"2026-10-23T00:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:00:38","slug":"cool-cool-cool-palmer-luckey-made-a-genetically-modified-military-dog-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9201","title":{"rendered":"Palmer Luckey Made a Genetically Modified Military Dog Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A new startup launched today with the definitely not terrifying mission of creating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/dogs-unlike-wolves-are-born-to-communicate-with-people\/\" class=\"text link\">genetically enhanced dogs<\/a> for the United States military, law enforcement, and emergency first responders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Warhound is the brainchild of Anduril\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/wired25-peter-thiel-palmer-luckey-virtual-reality-defense-tech\/\" class=\"text link\">Palmer Luckey<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/colossal-interior-department-team-up-endangered-species-dna\/\" class=\"text link\">Colossal Biosciences<\/a> cofounder Ben Lamm. The startup has raised $200 million to \u201crebuild America\u2019s domestic supply of elite working dogs\u201d and reduce dependency on European dog breeders for military canines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Lamm tells WIRED that Warhound is in the process of gene-editing its first batch of dogs. The startup has already collected blood samples from specific &#8220;top-performing\u201d military, police, and first responder dogs in the United States, and its goal is to clone them. Breeds will be \u201cmostly Belgian Malinois, some labs, and some shepherds,\u201d he says. The company anticipates the first round of puppies to be born in early 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The initial rounds of gene-editing will focus on eliminating common health conditions that impact these breeds, like hip dysplasia. Further down the line, Lamm envisions expanding to \u201creally interesting things,\u201d such as incorporating olfactory receptor genes from wolves to \u201cenhance\u201d the military dogs. (Colossal Biosciences is perhaps best known for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/scientists-brought-back-dire-wolf-deextinct\/\" class=\"text link\">work on gene-edited wolves<\/a> for its so-called <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/colossal.com\/direwolf\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/colossal.com\/direwolf\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/colossal.com\/direwolf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dire Wolf De-Extinction Project<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Warhound, based in Texas, will also equip its canines with \u201cAnduril\u2019s advanced cybernetic Augments, software, and battlefield situational awareness,\u201d according to a press releaseAsked if this means the dogs will be some kind of cyborgs, Lamm clarifies that the plan right now is to supply them with tools like \u201cadvanced body armor\u201d rather than, say, embedding some sort of computer in their dog bodies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cSo no dogs with lasers?\u201d WIRED asked Lamm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI can\u2019t comment on what Anduril plans,\u201d he says. \u201cDog safety and performance, and then helping continue helping to improve the human handler and dog bond, and working as a team\u2014that is what the mission is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Neither Luckey nor Lamm will be involved in Warhound\u2019s day-to-day, although Lamm is on the company\u2019s board, he says. David Spirk, a former Department of Defense chief data officer who most recently worked at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/palantir-what-the-company-does\/\" class=\"text link\">Palantir<\/a>, is serving as chief executive, and investors include In-Q-Tel, Sequoia Capital, and ARK Invest. Luckey is not an owner and does not have equity in the company, nor does Anduril; Colossal Biosciences does have an ownership stake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Luckey and Lamm have been working on the project for over a year, Lamm says, and just recently decided to take the company out of stealth. \u201cSomeone said, \u2018So it&#8217;s like the Captain America dog program with the Ironman tech program on top of it,\u2019\u201d Lamm tells WIRED.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Everyone can agree that this is normal, and good, and that when the precision-designed beasts arrive on Earth, they will recognize that we are not the enemy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The company plans to operate under the guidance of the American Humane Society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/cool-cool-cool-palmer-luckey-made-a-genetically-modified-military-dog-startup\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new startup launched today with the definitely not terrifying mission of creating genetically enhanced dogs for the United States military, law enforcement, and emergency first responders. 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The startup has raised $200 million to \u201crebuild America\u2019s domestic supply of elite working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[874,1555,947,1384,439,741],"class_list":["post-9201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-anduril","tag-animal-kingdom","tag-dogs","tag-genetic-engineering","tag-military","tag-military-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Palmer Luckey Made a Genetically Modified Military Dog Startup - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9201\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Palmer Luckey Made a Genetically Modified Military Dog Startup - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new startup launched today with the definitely not terrifying mission of creating genetically enhanced dogs for the United States military, law enforcement, and emergency first responders. 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