Andy Lowery

And I worked there very successfully for about five years.

And then that followed with my Raytheon chief engineer position.

And after that, which I really got involved in electronic warfare and microwaves and electromagnetic energy systems.

Wow.

I mean, what was Raytheon doing?

Well, Raytheon does everything.

They're a prime.

And this was back when Raytheon had a pretty doggone good reputation.

It was under Bill Swanson was the CEO.

And then Tom Kennedy took over after him at a portion or down the line.

But with Bill Swanson, he and I worked together on Next Generation Jammer, which was a big new age electronic warfare program that basically took older technology, transmit wave tubes,

and vacuum tubes and that sort of thing.

We can get in all what this stuff means later, I guess, but use this old technology and then upgraded it to a phased array, an antenna, a very sophisticated antenna that was powered by something called gallium nitride that I've heard on your show, you guys,

Talking a little bit about putting like a finger in the pond as far as talking about gallium nitride.

It's this really remarkable semiconductor like silicon.

Silicon is a semiconductor.

It's a remarkable semiconductor that can amplify signals and withstand huge, huge power densities way, way, way better than silicon.

traditional semiconductors or things that we've used before in the past.

And that is really what's unlocked kind of a new class of directed energy, a new class of electronic warfare, a new class of a whole bunch of different systems.

that leverage that kind of technology, the gallium nitride technology.