Brian Schimpf

It's going to be a combination of things they did with like MP materials, guaranteed offtake.

There's just this very different strategy that needs to be taken to really solve this on a country level scale.

And for us, we can be early adopters, right?

Like we can take advantage of all those things.

And we're building out a massive manufacturing complex in Ohio to be able to take advantage of all of those suppliers in the US and build a lot of things here on shore.

The defense world has shifted a lot, right?

Like a lot of the people in traditional defense industry are amazing at things like aircraft design and hypersonics and things along those lines.

But the next generation of this really looks different.

It really looks about software.

It looks how you adopt commercial manufacturing approaches.

It's how you mass manufacture these capabilities.

It's a very different focus.

We're moving out of an era where we need to make relatively few of very, very expensive high-end things.

We're moving into an era where it's much more about how do we have things at scale that are smarter, that are more autonomous.

And so this ability to attract the best talent into this really is coming from tech companies.

It's coming from universities.

It's people who otherwise would have jobs at all the tech company brand names you would know.

Part of that's compensation and liquidity and all the startup economics, but honestly, a lot more of it is just do they get to work on exciting problems with people they like on things that really matter, right?

And I think we present this opportunity to be very clear in our purpose and our mission, something that's going to be impactful, and they get to work on just amazing, cutting-edge things, right?

Like making autonomous fighter jets and these reusable missiles.