Q That's very cool. Can you talk a little bit about logistics and, uh, just how, how can we increase resiliency there and what startups are kind of tackling that or how, how should they even think about tackling that?
A Yeah, great, great question too. Um, let me start framing it by, I look at the defense, national security space, and again, we at Shield, we think pretty broadly when we, when it comes to national security, right? So that is anything that touches autonomy, AI, cyber, and space that has an application to both. When I think about the national security context, it's how do you sense, make sense, affect, and sustain? Sense is easier, right? That's, that's satellites, like Topher came on, one of our portfolio companies, right? He's sensing the environment and making sense of it. How do you affect it? So what are you actually going to do about it? And that could be something physical that could be Brandon and Chile drones, or that could be non-physical digital in nature. And there's this, and then there's a sustainment part. And I think this is just such a huge opportunity. And there's a lot of companies working on it and so much more to do. And I specifically call it sustainment, not logistics for a couple of reasons. One, this term of contested logistics, while important, doesn't get to the root of the issues, which is how do you both operate in a constrained environment? So how do you do things when you know you're going to run out of fuel or you're going to have these certain constraints? Um, uh, and then what are you going to, how are you going to sustain it more broadly, not ju…
AI assessment note: “I specifically call it sustainment, not logistics for a couple of reasons.”