Jared Isaacman

And I'd say a lot of things were actually as expected.

I had an opportunity to prepare for it more than once.

But what I'd say was what stands out, having visited every one of the centers on this really epic roadshow is just,

You know, what a large portion of our core competencies that have either been lost outright over the years or we've outsourced.

And then, you know, you take a look at a program like America's Return to the Moon with Artemis and you got five prime contractors, hundreds of subcontractors, and 75% of your workforce, your workforce, not partners, not commercial partners in this, are contractors.

you know, through staffing agencies.

So they're all using different software tools, collaboration tools, different HR systems, talking to different prime contractors, subcontractors.

Is it a surprise to anyone that we're 100 billion deep into this, years behind schedule?

No, I mean, it's right in front of you.

So, look, things like mission control, mission control is outsourced.

I mean, I got to imagine that would shock most people in this room to say, like, when the astronauts come over the radio and say, Houston, and the person responds back,

outsource, launch control, turning our pad.

People have been freaking out since I've said since last Friday that we are going to get back into the habit of launching moon rockets in months, not years.

Apollo 7 to Apollo 8, nine weeks apart, nine weeks apart.

We're on this cadence of every three and a half years.

And they're like, that doesn't make any sense.

You're never going to be able to pull it in from three and a half years.

It's an unrealistic plan.

It's like, no, we're going to go back to doing what we did before because we're going to rebuild the workforce that knows how to do these things.

That's part of our history.