Trae Stephens
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 31 Jul
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Um, and uh and that's kind of that's kind of our short term plan.
Uh yeah.
Uh you know, we're we're in a great position right now.
Uh obviously we've been around for seven and a half years uh through both Republican and Democratic administrations.
Um, you know, the defense is totally bipartisan.
It's like the only spending bill that goes with flying colors through the through Congress every year.
Um
We we don't feel particularly impacted by politics.
We do feel particularly impacted by um
Leadership that has a vision for how they want to go into the future and uh lean into these commercial opportunities that are going to be much more efficient and deliver capabilities faster than the traditional kind of exquisite systems driven by requirements process way that the the DoD has been running their business for a long time.
Um so you know, we've I think we've scaled uh a number of different programs uh really effectively.
effectively and as a result, uh people in D C see us as, you know, a real company, not a startup anymore.
Um and I think that that just gives us additional leverage to go and pick up bigger and bigger contracts um over time.
Yeah, I mean it's a flashy space.
There's a lot of demos.
Uh, you know, people are trying to figure out what practical utility looks like.
There are probably some use cases where humanoids make a lot of sense.
There are also a lot of use cases where you can get better bang for the buck with, you know, systems that don't need to walk around.
Um, they can still do some really cool things.
And um uh, you know, as with most of these kind of AI companies, I
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