U.S. Army

“The Army can't do its one J-ROC, its one joint function, which is defense for our expeditionary bases against missiles and drones like this. We're on the wrong side of the cost curve.”

“We had an electronic warfare solution, and we heard that the army was going to go out and do a request for proposal on something that was really similar The same long requirements document that we had. We said can you just paint this brown and throw it on a Hu…”

“It's not one company, it's not Miller Corp that's gonna solve autonomy. It's how do we get the right tool chain in place from SIM all the way through VNV? And then how do we get the right actions and the right libraries? And how do we get ourselves off of this…”

“The Army is the service that can do that because you can move around the edges of some of your ships. The Air Force can move around the edges of some of the aircraft. The capital assets, those are fixed. What I have the luxury in the Army is, like, we can modi…”

“We are going to Put together a consortium for autonomy.”

“Most companies don't have 60 years of policy and rules that were written generally by enthusiasts and visionaries, but implemented by minimalists. And what I mean by that is risk minimalists.”

“We had 17 programs of record in this mission command enterprise, and each one did sort of similar things in the fact that each one of them had a map. Humans like pixels. We're really good at seeing pixels. They make us happy. So we looked at maps. Well, each o…”

“This year we are going to put the consortium for the Army's next generation command and control into its program phase.”

“This is not a technology problem. This is a culture and a process problem that we can apply technology to.”

“Now, today, the Army is only 21% of the defense budget. We are everywhere. We, the Army, are everywhere. And again, this is gonna sound a little parochial, but we're on the border. We're the Global Response Force. We're the Immediate Response Force. We're the …”

“So we're gonna take that next generation command and control into, you know, get that on contract and start moving forward and get that fielded to one of our divisions this year.”

“Had built the system largely informed by the US Army's requirements for what they thought was important for a quadcopter in this space. And electronic warfare was just nowhere on that list.”

“The kinds of things we develop for the Army, for example, off-road autonomy has fed back into our commercial business, so into agriculture, mining, you know, and we just started to see this kind of flywheel start to affect that, to take place.”

“So I was proud to join the army with three other colleagues. So we have Bob McGrew, chief, former chief research officer at open AI Boz, the CTO of Meta and Andrew Weill, the former chief product officer of open AI, head of science now.”