defense industrial base

“So there's something like 20 to 30,000 small businesses that make up the majority of the defense industrial base.”

“A large amount of the reason we're bottlenecked on things like Javelin missiles is because they're old systems made in old ways, and you cannot scale that but so much.”

“The American industrial base is the defense industrial base.”

“When we thought about the next 10 years, the question was, like, is the future really about Shield AI building the world's best AI pilot, or is it about making a contribution to the industrial base so that, you know, everybody that's building these systems You…”

“The thesis of the company is basically, if people don't know this, most of the skilled labor in the defense industrial base is 62 years old. That makes the components or Widgets that end up getting assembled into drones, fighter jets, missiles any hardware tha…”