Katherine Boyle

How do we build those as quickly as possible?

But it's just the modularization and the production thing that, you know, I'm less interested in software or design.

I'm much more interested in like, how do we just rebuild the manufacturing powerhouse that America once was?

And I think we can do it, but there's a lot of gaps in there.

Yeah.

They vertically integrate to where they're building everything.

They have an in-house machine shop.

We have another company that I work very closely with called Hadrian that's building these automated machine shops where they build parts for every company you've ever heard of in defense and aerospace.

critical parts that have to be built in the US.

And it used to be that if you needed a critical part, you'd go to one of these massive machine shops.

The machine shops are run by someone who's older usually in their 60s, 50s, 60s.

They have apprentices who study them.

It can take two to three years to learn how to manufacture these critical parts.

If you bring software into the factory, as Hadrian has done, they can teach a former bus driver, a high school dropout.

Their goal is they want to take baristas and train them to make these critical parts in 30 days.

And it's because you automate 80%, 90% of the process, the quality control, the design aspects.

You automate it with software.

And then the last 10%, you can teach a human to do.

But that leads to just extraordinary output.

So the more factories we can have that are software-defined factories, where the software is actually making it easier for humans to produce more in the factory, whether it's critical machined parts, whether it's casting, whether it's sort of the tier kind of two to three suppliers, where it's the kind of...