Jan Sramek

That also allows those companies to pay those people way better to work in those factories.

Who are the people who can build the factories of the future?

Who are the people who do robotics and AI?

Where do they live?

They predominantly live in the Bay Area.

And right now, we are making it insanely hard for them to do their job by forcing them every time they need to go to the factory floor to get on a plane in Silicon Valley and fly to some other part of America and then adjust it and then spend three days coming back.

You cannot do a one-day trip to Texas or Ohio.

It's a three-day trip.

We should have places where Silicon Valley can build an hour outside of Menlo Park.

And that's what we're building with the Foundry.

The second major national security issue that we're working on is shipbuilding.

As you might have heard, we have quite a serious problem, Houston.

Just as one example, Zhongjing Island shipyard in China built more ships last year than we have built collectively in the United States since the end of the Second World War.

One shipyard.

And by the way, every ship in China that is a commercial ship is built to military standards.

so that if you need to, in a conflict scenario, you can mount it with guns and systems and everything else that you need.

We have a long way to go.

Here is the good news.

Zhongjing Island, the Death Star of Chinese shipbuilding, is the area that you can see in red on this image.

Newport News, which is the biggest shipyard we have in America, is shown in blue.