Brandon Tseng

The conventional weapon systems that have deterred conventional warfare have been our aircraft carriers, our submarines, our ships.

Those have deterred largely state-on-state conflict up until Russia invading Ukraine.

Um, like major state on state conflict, obviously there've been a handful of small examples.

Um, but it became, um, you know, it like, how, how can you continue to deter warfare just at the conventional level and then also at the asymmetric level?

And, you know, my belief is that AI and autonomy has a massive, uh, role to play in deterring conflict.

Look, I believe in a world of autonomous systems.

I think they're going to have a profound impact on humanity.

As it relates to the defense world, I just fundamentally believe that swarms of autonomous systems are going to be the most strategic conventional deterrent of the 21st century.

And I think it's important for the US to lead here and so wanted to start a company that realized this vision.

I think there are a couple people talking about it in 2014, Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work, but what I was seeing was no one was really working on it because it requires a lot of software expertise to actually build the AI and autonomy.

And that's not what the traditional defense primes are known for.

They're not known for their software systems.

They're known for building

the aircraft carriers, the submarines, the fighter jets of the world.

But, you know, the best of AI and autonomy was all going to Silicon Valley at the time.

So mission is to protect service members and civilians with artificially intelligent systems.

In pursuit of this mission, we have been building and proliferating the world's best AI pilot.

Easiest way to think about an AI pilot is self-driving technology for unmanned systems.

Why is that important?

It enables unmanned systems to operate without GPS, without communications, or while GPS or communications are jammed.