Caroline Hyde

And that's something that has to change.

We have to be able to push the boundaries on capabilities and we have to be able to do that on a rapid time scale.

So for us, what this funding represents is a significant amount of demand that we've seen from a wide variety of customers and being able to enable their missions to go further faster.

So this year has been a really exciting

example for us to kind of show what that end-to-end concept looks like for Northwood.

Many people do know us by our phased arrays, which is critical to how we think about the ground, really introducing novel hardware solutions so that we can do more in space.

But we view ourselves as an end-to-end partner for these space missions.

all the way from the concept that they are initially coming up with to the time when their data is streaming live and actually delivered to end users.

And we've actually done that.

We've gone from an initial concept of saying, hey, let's have dynamic links that you can access, not just from low Earth orbit, but all the way up to geostationary orbit in the same system.

And then let's show how fast we can bring that concept into reality.

And so we're talking today as well about our contract that we closed with the U.S.

Space Force.

Absolutely.

Well, we've already executed on that contract across a number of milestones.

So contract was executed.

And at this point, there's been a three month turnaround time from kickoff of that contract to actually delivering links live in the field.

So we have those links live in the field already.

And so what the funding represents for us is let's

scale that model, let's do it more, let's demonstrate how we're able to deploy a global network of this portal product that supports the dynamic links between low Earth orbit and geostationary orbit, but also serve up more space capabilities that we're getting a lot of appetite for.