Blake Scholl

Well, do it in the right congressional districts.

The lack of urgency for defense procurement combined with how Congress fundamentally operates has resulted in there being one factory in every congressional district in order to get these big programs authorized.

You end up with a supply chain where you've got all these little mom and pop mini factories and you've got these parts ping pong on their way around the country and it's incredibly inefficient.

So we should blow all that up metaphorically and fix it.

I mean, so for being a commercial first company, you know, we don't need, um, you know, we don't need to go past some big thing that requires unanimous out of Congress.

We just, let's just go build efficient stuff.

And so we are ultimately, um,

So we're building a new R&D center in Denver.

And when we're completely done with that, every kind of part on the airplane will be able to be made in one roof.

Wow.

And for our engines, it will ultimately be a facility that's like raw materials in one side of the building and jet engines out the other side.

And you can massively improve time and massively improve cost just by putting all the production processes in one physical place.

It doesn't require some like, we invented a new kind of metal.

It's just put it all in one building.

Already, that makes a huge difference.

Where are your manufacturing facilities?

Our headquarters are in Denver, so engineering is there.

Our R&D scale manufacturing is in Denver.

We've got an engine test site near Denver International.

We're going to be able to run all these engines.