Katherine Boyle

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The a16z Show · WSJ x a16z: The Next 25 Years of Defense Innovation · 17 Feb 2026 podcast

Into these larger systems, even if they're small-scale drones, we have to figure out how to manufacture those and incentivize companies to do that.

Um, but certainly there are, you know, there's companies like SkyDio, which is a portfolio company of ours that's been operating for 10, 11 years now, um, that works with the Department of War and is built in the US.

Uh, but we do have to think more about what we what we call shifting left, these component parts.

Um, we can't be, you know, taking Chinese parts and saying that that's going to be the solution to how we build for.

or sp especially the Department of War, but also things like public safety, um, where where drones are also being used um every day.

You say shifting left in terms of it's not um you know not these primes, but they're it's the component parts that go into the supply chain.

So yeah I uh it's always confusing because people are like, is that a partisan thing?

It's like no, no, it's not a not a not a partisan comment.

Uh more more of just a supply chain.

It's yeah, the the types of component parts that go into a product that you are.

Well, I I think, I mean, in in some cases, yeah, we we've seen different different pieces of legislation and policy.

I mean, we've certainly seen um new executive orders around public safety in particular, not um working with Chinese drone companies, for example.

Um, for a long time, um, if you were you know seeing any sort of police force, a local police force working with drones, oftentimes they were working with DJI or working with Chinese drones.

Um, and that is definitely a national security threat.

So now you're seeing

Sort of a kind of a wake-up call and a policy shift that we don't actually want that data returning to China.

We don't necessarily want those drones operating in communities across the country.

So you are seeing sort of this shift through various types of policy, whether it's executive orders, to make sure that these components and make sure that this technology is actually American made.

And we've certainly, you know, we've been investing in it.

And I think there's there's going to become a huge opportunity.

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