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“Today, we're at a place where, you know, we're fortunate to be able to, you know, disclose we're working with the Air Force on the Loyal Wingman project, which is incredibly big change from where we were when we even started with this.”

“Unlike, you know, something like an F-thirty-five, where it's only feasible to afford one provider of this you can start to look at for this, for weapon systems, for a variety of these things, Carrying multiple people to be able to really incentivize the indus…”

“They are moving at a wildly faster pace than they have before. They're using the power of, you know, senior leadership to mobilize and force change into the department that otherwise would kind of move and incrementally adopt these new things over a very slow …”

“And the U.S. Has under-invested in air, air defense capabilities for the last 20 or 30 years, right? We've had full air superiority. We didn't need to invest. It wasn't a critical problem set we had.”

“The traditional industrial base in the U.S. For defense is often at the point of retirement. You have people who are largely you know, built this up during the Cold War, they're retiring, their kids don't want to run these facilities, and it's become a critica…”

“I think the single most important thing is if you're solving a critical warfighter need on a problem that, you know, urgently needs to be solved, you can be successful. I think the trap for most people is they're solving a problem that would be great to solve,…”

“And having folks with the background in the defense space is incredibly important. How you sell, what that looks like, the types of problems they want to work on, how that whole mechanism works is so different than any other, you know, sort of enterprise sales…”

“The largest thing we're working on right now is an autonomous underwater submarine. That's about the size of a school bus. It's about, you know, gonna be 60 feet long, 10 feet diameter. It's a very Big boat. And you know, it'll be able to go huge distances for…”

“We don't do AI research. We're not interested in any of that. We're looking at how can we kind of best take what is working in the state of the art and apply it rapidly into these defense problem sets.”

“A lot of these areas that are more non-deterministic, so, you know, things like reinforcement learning or, you know, potential applications of LOMs into the space, they are inherently non-deterministic, and that is a risk. And so kind of quantifying that, know…”

“The reality with working with a defense customer is you kind of, you know, you have very few buyers, right? It's like, there's not that many customers you're working with. And so you, you're kind of subject to their timing and desire for what they're going to …”

“We had landed a counter drone contract with SOCOM for a billion dollars to, you know, kind of scale out and get these technologies deployed.”

“To convince the government you are a good partner and trustworthy to do this, we've established a lobbying group day one of the company, right? We were on the Hill talking about what we do, why it's beneficial to national security and why it's beneficial to th…”

“When you look at, like, how these things play out in terms of, like, what do modern technology companies spend? Take a Tesla, take any of these companies that are building, you know, kind of modern hardware, software enabled systems. You know, what's the perce…”

“Defense is a very unique world where you're going to build a lot of different products at relatively low volumes.”

“We went and pitched them on this idea of you could build these extra large autonomous underwater vehicles. They can build them fast, and we did this model of splitting the development fifty-fifty.”

“We have our first Production GoShark already came off the production line, then I think 30 days of signing the production contract.”

“We have our first production GoShark already rank, came off the production line. Then I think, 30 days of signing the production contract.”

“We were literally taking desktop GPUs GPUs and liquid cooling them to get these things to work in a hot desert under solar power.”

“We were able to go and get a prototype up in about three months and then move into like a pilot in about six months and then a full scale in about two and a half years.”

“The Columbia class nuclear submarine is going into service in 2035 and its expected lifetime is through 2085.”

“There's still physics limits to all of this, and you only have like five types of sensors. You're really only going to be talking about. It turns out, you know, you're going to take a picture of something. It's either going to be thermal or it's going to be, y…”

“We've got hundreds of systems deployed in the field today using a variety of AI technologies in, in often very straightforward ways to, you know, simplify the lives of operators as much as possible.”