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Mavrookas: The US Army operates more boats than the Navy
“The Army actually has more boats than the Navy does.”
Mavrookas: US Navy 30-year shipbuilding plan will cost $1.2 trillion
“There's a 30 year shipbuilding plan in the Navy right now. We talked about going from 290 to 381. Over 30 years. That'll cost 1.2 trillion dollars if we can even execute as a country in the first place on that plan.”
Mavrookas: Saronic announced multi-hundred million dollar Navy contract in December 2025
“We talked about Corsair and the large contract that we announced in December of 25, multi-hundred million dollar contract with the Navy.”
Mavrookas: The US Army operates more watercraft than the Navy
“The Army actually has more boats than the Navy does.”
Mavrookas: Saronic announced $392M Navy contract in December 2025
“We've announced the three hundred and ninety two million dollar contract with the Navy in December of 2025”
Emanuel: Iran and Ukraine control waterways despite lacking navies
“Neither Iran or Ukraine have a Navy, and they both control waterways near their fronts.”
Lack of Scalable Hardware and Software Blocked Navy Mass Drone Adoption
“The biggest problem, well, the biggest problem that they were facing was reliability and scalability. So you can't adopt thousands of platforms if you can't get thousands of platforms. So it's building that reliability and scalability, not just in the hardware…”
Kerst: Gecko Materials is working with the US Navy on underwater gripping
“So there is applications that we're working with the Navy in that sense, in which you are going to have a gripper that's obviously not on string.”
Lowery: Epirus testing microwave weapon against boat motors with Navy
“We're going out with the Navy and participating in what's called Antex. And Antex is a program that we're going to take one of our systems and put a whole bunch of different outboard boat motors out in the water and see how far and how quickly and how effectiv…”
The US Navy funded Blue Forge to recruit young manufacturing workers
“And so this company blue forge, it was put together I think in I believe the Navy funded it. And what they're trying to do is to convince young Americans to go back to manufacturing jobs or they don't mean to do this, but it sort of does it go back to trade jo…”
Startups must transition from pirate to navy culture to survive
“I believe that every startup must transition from a band of roguish pirates into a disciplined navy. Get the timing wrong, and you'll quickly be lost at sea.”
Hoffman: Maturing startup culture requires strategic strength, not becoming toothless
“When you become an honorable Navy, it doesn't mean you are a toothless diplomatic corps. You still need to be an effective fighting force, but one that is a lot more strategic in projecting its power.”