Matt Miller

What are the biggest benefits of these drone boats?

I mean, I look at this administration seemingly begging our allies to come help out in the Strait of Hormuz with minesweepers because we have only some wooden-hulled boats out there, right?

And obviously with a crew that you don't want to risk with such a dangerous task, is this where you can play a critical role?

That's exactly right.

I mean, when you look at what's happening in the Straits of Hormuz and, candidly, other maritime environments around the world, what you're seeing are increasingly contested and increasingly complex environments.

What unmanned systems really bring to the table is scale, persistence and risk reduction.

And what I mean by that is you can really deploy high numbers of these platforms, again, at a fraction of the price point of traditional manned platforms.

You can operate them continuously in these dangerous environments while keeping sailors out of harm's way.

That really gives naval commanders optionality to combat some of these threats that they're seeing that aren't countered very easily with manned platforms alone.

What is, Dino, you know, we hear so much about the defense industrial base and how we're not building enough here.

We're not building fast enough here or efficiently enough.

What is the main bottleneck to producing at scale for you?

For us, we really rethink the problem from the ground up.

It's really, how do you redesign the ship so that it's designed for manufacturability?

We've taken a vertically integrated approach so that we can ensure that we get to the scale that this country needs.

And again, that all starts with the design.

Once you have the design in place, then the workforce, the training, everything else needed to build out the capacity

And then the software and the autonomy that's required to power these vessels at the scale that we're building them out.

This is true maritime autonomy that is vertically integrated and delivered as a cohesive capability to the end user.

That's what's required.