Dino Mavrookas
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And that is something I take very seriously and we will never, never waver on. And it's, the Navy's not used to that. I mean, just look at the shipbuilding programs today. I mean, they're all, I think they're literally all delayed.
And that is something I take very seriously and we will never, never waver on. And it's, the Navy's not used to that. I mean, just look at the shipbuilding programs today. I mean, they're all, I think they're literally all delayed.
And that is something I take very seriously and we will never, never waver on. And it's, the Navy's not used to that. I mean, just look at the shipbuilding programs today. I mean, they're all, I think they're literally all delayed.
Yes and no. Yes and no. It goes back to the modularity of it. As long as you have, in your example, like weapon systems, what weapon systems can you put on the boat? We basically say, look, it's 24 feet long. Here's the length of our payload bay. Here's the width of our payload bay. And it can carry 1,000 pounds. What fits inside of that? Again, because it's not just weapon systems.
Yes and no. Yes and no. It goes back to the modularity of it. As long as you have, in your example, like weapon systems, what weapon systems can you put on the boat? We basically say, look, it's 24 feet long. Here's the length of our payload bay. Here's the width of our payload bay. And it can carry 1,000 pounds. What fits inside of that? Again, because it's not just weapon systems.
Yes and no. Yes and no. It goes back to the modularity of it. As long as you have, in your example, like weapon systems, what weapon systems can you put on the boat? We basically say, look, it's 24 feet long. Here's the length of our payload bay. Here's the width of our payload bay. And it can carry 1,000 pounds. What fits inside of that? Again, because it's not just weapon systems.
It's built for defense and commercial applications. And then, of course, we talk to the various customers and weapon systems. We talk to the military. We say, give us the universe of things that you would want to put on it, just like any product. You go and do the customer discovery. How do you think you could potentially want to use this? And then you build the most modular platform that you can.
It's built for defense and commercial applications. And then, of course, we talk to the various customers and weapon systems. We talk to the military. We say, give us the universe of things that you would want to put on it, just like any product. You go and do the customer discovery. How do you think you could potentially want to use this? And then you build the most modular platform that you can.
It's built for defense and commercial applications. And then, of course, we talk to the various customers and weapon systems. We talk to the military. We say, give us the universe of things that you would want to put on it, just like any product. You go and do the customer discovery. How do you think you could potentially want to use this? And then you build the most modular platform that you can.
both hardware and software. So not only do you have to integrate from a hardware perspective, which we've made very easy, but you have to tie whatever that payload is into the software and autonomy so that it can then be controlled the same way that the boats are controlled. So unless you can integrate all of that together very quickly What's the point? So that's why we made the platforms module.
both hardware and software. So not only do you have to integrate from a hardware perspective, which we've made very easy, but you have to tie whatever that payload is into the software and autonomy so that it can then be controlled the same way that the boats are controlled. So unless you can integrate all of that together very quickly What's the point? So that's why we made the platforms module.
both hardware and software. So not only do you have to integrate from a hardware perspective, which we've made very easy, but you have to tie whatever that payload is into the software and autonomy so that it can then be controlled the same way that the boats are controlled. So unless you can integrate all of that together very quickly What's the point? So that's why we made the platforms module.
That's why we focused on software first. That's why we focused on a very universally designed hardware platform. It's like, look, I don't actually know all the weapon systems that the military may want to put on this one day. So would you... I don't think the military knows, for that matter. Probably not. Right? Because, again, we're just starting to use autonomous systems on the battlefield.
That's why we focused on software first. That's why we focused on a very universally designed hardware platform. It's like, look, I don't actually know all the weapon systems that the military may want to put on this one day. So would you... I don't think the military knows, for that matter. Probably not. Right? Because, again, we're just starting to use autonomous systems on the battlefield.
That's why we focused on software first. That's why we focused on a very universally designed hardware platform. It's like, look, I don't actually know all the weapon systems that the military may want to put on this one day. So would you... I don't think the military knows, for that matter. Probably not. Right? Because, again, we're just starting to use autonomous systems on the battlefield.
It's just... We're just scratching the surface of it.
It's just... We're just scratching the surface of it.
It's just... We're just scratching the surface of it.
So we try to keep the engineering work out of the government's hands. Not saying they're bad engineers, but they're just not an organization that's set up to scale, right? That doesn't mean we're only going to be the ones doing the integration work, right? There could be a variety of ways that... sort of that side of the business works, right?
So we try to keep the engineering work out of the government's hands. Not saying they're bad engineers, but they're just not an organization that's set up to scale, right? That doesn't mean we're only going to be the ones doing the integration work, right? There could be a variety of ways that... sort of that side of the business works, right?