Brian Schimpf

Absolutely.

Well, thank you for having me on.

Really excited to have you here.

The Andoril has been around about eight years, but we've grown incredibly in that time.

I think this year we're going to be over 6,500 employees.

We've got something like about half of them here in Costa Mesa.

We're looking to basically double revenue this year.

So we're about a billion last year.

We'll go over two billion this year.

and we're ramping production about 400%.

So a lot of the mix is switching from a lot of the earlier stage things we were doing, which were kind of experimental, really learning what the technology could do, how to integrate it with war fighters.

That is one of the key conflicts.

But if you look worldwide, I mean, you've got land wars in Europe.

You've got the Red Sea still basically denied.

Iran doesn't look like it's going to slow down anytime soon.

China, beyond just the tensions with the U.S., has been constantly aggravating with the Philippines, constantly fighting over different islands and things like that.

So you're in this period of just massive geopolitical instability, and China is obviously the focus.

But, I mean, they've had a very strategic view to this, right?

Like they've blocked, they've probably put significant export controls on magnets for high-end semiconductors.

How hard is that?