Andy Lowery

And I was really happy in that role.

I was doing great stuff.

And then

down the line it just one thing led to another and I ended up in the position of CEO a couple years later so I think Bo is happy and Nathan is real happy that that I eventually made that decision and together with the board obviously to offer me the position but

I came in, this is my third CEO job and it's not an easy job for those out there that have done it.

It's very lonely and high pressure and you've got a lot of pressure both directions and it's tough.

So I needed a break and I came in and I was able to do what I love to do is build stuff and do the engineering and help sort of advance the design that the previous team had done.

So when you look at the designs we are now releasing and going into production today,

Those were designs that when I was the chief product officer, me and the team just redid completely.

We've redone the entire work that we had done in previous generations of the system and call this system Leonidas Generation 2.

That's a second sort of major, major upgrade that we did in order to improve things like range and a lot of the survivability type requirements.

When was it founded?

It was founded in 2018, right before COVID.

And most of the work that they did to get the system proving that it would be viable was done during the COVID period, actually.

They brought people in, you know, and we were safe about it, but, you know, they had to work kind of hand in hand and it was a real discovery phase those first two or three years.

And then I joined in 2021, right when we started to get into product market fit and doing our first demos for the Army,

uh army ricto was a name of organization which is now called pae fires we had done some tests with army ricto and some other companies in order to see what type of system would be at least worth the army taking a look at to see if it had a viability for some of their missions and that all started in about 2021. wow it was it always

counter drone initiatives?

We brought up, yeah, we brought up with the idea with counter drone, but we really didn't set out to build a directed energy machine.

What we set out to build was a really, really high powered RF transmitter, something that could put in all kinds of electromagnetic interference, or if you wanted to make it a transmitter for a radar or