Carol Masser
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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?
Yeah, I think it goes back to the need.
I think 10 years ago, I don't think people really understood what our adversaries were capable of.
I think there was a certain level of, you know, we have the superior tech advantage.
And I think objectively speaking, that's changed.