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Dino Mavrookas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1458 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

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?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

We talked about the large primes a lot, but they do make good systems. They do make weapons systems and things that the military wants to put on our boats. So maybe we partner with the large primes, and they send their people here to help with the integration, right? They send their people to Saronic. Or we're working with the government, and the government's like, hey, we want this on the boat.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

We talked about the large primes a lot, but they do make good systems. They do make weapons systems and things that the military wants to put on our boats. So maybe we partner with the large primes, and they send their people here to help with the integration, right? They send their people to Saronic. Or we're working with the government, and the government's like, hey, we want this on the boat.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

We talked about the large primes a lot, but they do make good systems. They do make weapons systems and things that the military wants to put on our boats. So maybe we partner with the large primes, and they send their people here to help with the integration, right? They send their people to Saronic. Or we're working with the government, and the government's like, hey, we want this on the boat.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

Great. The government may send some people to Saronic. And, you know, we're not really tied into this is how it has to happen. And it only has to be us. But when you want it at speed and scale, having the engineers with that mindset running the efforts, because here's the thing. You could build a thousand boats, but if your integrations aren't set up to say, and it takes you, you know,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

Great. The government may send some people to Saronic. And, you know, we're not really tied into this is how it has to happen. And it only has to be us. But when you want it at speed and scale, having the engineers with that mindset running the efforts, because here's the thing. You could build a thousand boats, but if your integrations aren't set up to say, and it takes you, you know,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

Great. The government may send some people to Saronic. And, you know, we're not really tied into this is how it has to happen. And it only has to be us. But when you want it at speed and scale, having the engineers with that mindset running the efforts, because here's the thing. You could build a thousand boats, but if your integrations aren't set up to say, and it takes you, you know,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

you're building a boat every eight hours, but it takes you six months to do an integration, who really cares? Because at the end of the day, the capability that's rolling off the line is six months. That's the longest power in your chain. And that has to be at the same rate of our boat manufacturing.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

you're building a boat every eight hours, but it takes you six months to do an integration, who really cares? Because at the end of the day, the capability that's rolling off the line is six months. That's the longest power in your chain. And that has to be at the same rate of our boat manufacturing.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

you're building a boat every eight hours, but it takes you six months to do an integration, who really cares? Because at the end of the day, the capability that's rolling off the line is six months. That's the longest power in your chain. And that has to be at the same rate of our boat manufacturing.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

And so that's what we have to work with all of our partners on to make sure that we're doing these integrations in the, quote unquote, the Saronic way.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

And so that's what we have to work with all of our partners on to make sure that we're doing these integrations in the, quote unquote, the Saronic way.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

And so that's what we have to work with all of our partners on to make sure that we're doing these integrations in the, quote unquote, the Saronic way.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

So there's a brain. The brain of the vessel lives in the boat. Okay. So it's critical. It is absolutely critical. And I'm going to hammer this point. The intelligence of the platform and the mission capability has to live at the edge. And let me explain why. So I'll back up a little bit, and I'll talk a little bit about the different types of autonomy and kind of where we're at.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

So there's a brain. The brain of the vessel lives in the boat. Okay. So it's critical. It is absolutely critical. And I'm going to hammer this point. The intelligence of the platform and the mission capability has to live at the edge. And let me explain why. So I'll back up a little bit, and I'll talk a little bit about the different types of autonomy and kind of where we're at.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

So there's a brain. The brain of the vessel lives in the boat. Okay. So it's critical. It is absolutely critical. And I'm going to hammer this point. The intelligence of the platform and the mission capability has to live at the edge. And let me explain why. So I'll back up a little bit, and I'll talk a little bit about the different types of autonomy and kind of where we're at.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

I mentioned these terms earlier. Man on the loop, or man in the loop, man on the loop, and man out of the loop. What are they, and what are we building at Saronic? Man in the loop, think of a remote control. So this is your predator drone. It's actually... one, it's actually many to one.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

I mentioned these terms earlier. Man on the loop, or man in the loop, man on the loop, and man out of the loop. What are they, and what are we building at Saronic? Man in the loop, think of a remote control. So this is your predator drone. It's actually... one, it's actually many to one.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

I mentioned these terms earlier. Man on the loop, or man in the loop, man on the loop, and man out of the loop. What are they, and what are we building at Saronic? Man in the loop, think of a remote control. So this is your predator drone. It's actually... one, it's actually many to one.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

So it's the opposite of what we're building because you have one person on a joystick and you have three or four people behind that person reading all the sensor data coming off of the aircraft saying, hey, I'm seeing this over here, turn left. I'm seeing that over there, turn right. It actually takes about four or five people to pilot one Predator drone because a human's controlling everything.