Trae Stephens
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 31 Jul
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You know, like the basically everything in defense runs on Windows just like it does anywhere else in the enterprise.
Um, you know, Azure Cloud is a is it has a a huge presence in the GovCloud ecosystem.
Um there's, you know, Microsoft applications that lay across every critical piece of infrastructure that exists um inside of the DOD.
Um
Um and they as you said, they have been much more willing than the other big tech companies to think of themselves as an American company, which is incredibly important, uh, and also be willing to work with the government on programs where, you know, there there's potentially even lethality at the end of whatever kill chain they're participating in.
Um and so tons of respect and uh uh for for Microsoft and their their willingness to do that.
Brad Smith, the uh the president there has has been going to the Reagan National Defense Forum for a decade.
I mean, he's he's very embedded in this community.
Um, so I do think that there's a role to play.
Um, and you know, as part of our work on IVAS, like we are going to continue leveraging IP that they built as part of that program.
We'll continue to
leverage Azure as a core cloud capability as part of the program.
And I only wish the other big tech companies were as willing as they are to work on these important programs.
It's
Yeah, um Arsenal exists.
Uh the site selection is over.
Um we're building the factory just south of Columbus, Ohio.
Um the first call it 800,000 square feet uh is already uh kind of you know there and ready for us to to construct into.
Um the the challenge for that for us for the next call it 16 months will be building out the that first building and uh getting product lines stood up so that we can.
Um you know.
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