Brandon Tseng

The good thing is, is like every single military mission has been written in pretty, like,

good detail and description in like army field manuals in, you know, the infantry squad books, right?

In like every air operations manual, these missions are well described.

And the cool thing is like software engineers can take those descriptions and then turn them into, you know, a software package, you know, a software mission package.

Um, it was, it was out of a necessity, right?

When we wanted to, we started off with the quadcopter.

We said, Hey, are there any other quadcopters that can carry the sensors, the compute and the package that we need to do to make a product?

And the answer was like, no, those didn't exist.

And so, um, we decided to, Hey, we're going to have to build our own quadcopter.

So we built a hardware engineering team, um, built that product.

And then when we decided to like move up the aviation food chain, um, a big reason for that was.

I could tell someone, I could tell a four-star general, four-star admiral, or an undersecretary all day, every day, that this AI pilot that's flying a quadcopter, you can put it on F-16.

But back in 2018, 2019, everybody's like, nah, I don't believe that, right?

So we were like, hey, we need another piece of hardware to demonstrate that this AI pilot is transferable from platform to platform to platform.

That led to the acquisition of the VBAT.

We're like, okay, now we can put the AI pilot on the VBAT.

Now you see the AI pilot running on a quadcopter.

You see it running on a VBAT.

We bought Heron Systems and, you know, that won the DARPA Alpha dogfight.

And then we're the first company in the world to fly the F-16 completely autonomously.