Brandon Tseng

Those types of operations.

Yeah, so a couple things.

One, to the point where I recognized really quickly that, hey, this market is vicious, small.

Everybody thinks of quadcopters as toys.

This is, again, back in 2018, 19, 20.

There's not real money flowing towards these quadcopter products.

We said, hey, we have to figure out how to...

get on to more strategic platforms, strategic capabilities.

That's where a lot of the defense dollars were moving.

So what we ended up doing was during the time, we decided, hey, we're going to buy another platform.

So made that decision in late 2019.

2020, there was a couple acquisition targets that we were looking at.

Ended up in 2021 buying two companies, both at the same time.

One of the companies, Martin UAV, they made the VBAT.

The other company, Heron Systems, they were working on AI and autonomy for fighter jets.

Um, and so, um, what we're able to do is, Hey, let's put the AI pilot on the VBAT, which is again, you think of it as like a miniature predator Reaper drone.

Um, and then, you know, we wanted access to these programs where we could put AI pilots onto fighter aircraft.

You press it, it, like, spin its rotors and, like, take off from your hand and, like, go inside the buildings.

The way that, like, it works from a technical perspective, and, like, this is a simplification of it, but there's a series of software modules.

And every self-driving car or humanoid robot is working like this.