Carol Masser
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You call yourself the air gap software company.
So does that get rid of Microsoft entirely?
Do you come on and help ensure that the Department of War or any of these other military-focused areas of government are able to still use the software providers they do, but you're able to put this layer on top that makes it safe?
Where are you solving for?
Yeah, you absolutely nailed it.
Most of the entire world is cloud-based.
It's all centralized compute.
The Department of War, and we believe many companies, many individuals over the next decade or two, will actually find the value of these air-gapped systems.
And let me define air-gapped for you.
Air-gapped is fully disconnected.
That means it really doesn't touch anything.
It's semi-disconnected, which means it might touch a few things or even extremely high firewalls.
to where you might have access to the internet to certain domains, but you certainly can't go out and reach out to Docker.
You currently can't reach out to things like GitHub.
Rob, you had a career in the Air Force focused on technology.
Ten years ago, you tried to work with the DoD to change how they
Approach software.
Fast forward to present day, clearly you see an opportunity.
Has that changed how the military apparatus views its procurement of software?
And how fast are you able to grow your contracts with the defense industrial base?