Trae (Trey) Stephens

know that's something that we expect to see.

And over time, you train that model, and that has now grown into a massive program.

We cover an enormous swath of the southwest border, and we're expanding constantly, delivering more towers to get more and more coverage on the border.

But the important thing about that initial work

is that all the lessons that we learned from that, the AI computer vision system, the operating system for surfacing tracks to the users of the platform, ended up being the exact same back end that we used for every subsequent product.

And so it was kind of the AI brain was the real product, and then whether you

made a sentry tower that flies, which was our next product, which was called Ghost, to interceptor missiles, to submarines, to autonomous fighter planes.

They all have that same operating system on the back end that we call Lattice.

And so we're still getting amortized research and development out of the very first thing that we started building eight years ago.

Where did you guys come up with the list?

It was just sitting around with Palmer, me, Palmer, Matt, Brian, and Joe, just riffing on what we think would make sense for us to build, leveraging that combination of software and hardware.

I'm honestly kind of surprised that we ended up doing almost exactly what we said that we were gonna do at the very beginning.

Yeah, yeah, I can show you the slide, yeah.

Perfect.

So what did come next?

The next product after the Century Tower was Ghost, which is just a flying version of the tower.

It's a modular payload drone that could do autonomous identification, detection, and tracking of targets.

You can think about it as a helicopter with a pilot.

where you just tell it, hey, I want you to go and do this mission.

Like, go and see if you can find things that look like this.