Trae (Trey) Stephens

And we just completed the delivery on a program of record for Australia where we'll build a bunch of these for them as they're kind of transitioning over to the AUKUS treaty where they're getting the delivery of nuclear submarines from the United States.

They obviously have real concerns about the sea space around the continent, and we're spinning up a bunch of work there with them on that as well.

We also have a product called Seabed Sentry that is kind of a platform that you can drop

into onto the floor of the ocean floor and it does the same thing as a sentry tower would except uh undersea and so um we also have copperhead which is kind of like uh a modular payload delivery vehicle undersea uh which is kind of a euphemism for a torpedo without saying torpedo um but yeah we're you know we're always building new stuff in all these domains how i mean

Yeah, no, it's a good question.

I mean, the...

As far as like doing things at limited scale, like, you know, we can ramp pretty quickly into the limited rate production on all of these.

I think, you know, the example of Century Tower, I mean, within a year of the company starting, we were rolling these things out in production.

With Roadrunner, I think it was like 18 months from the beginning of that program until we were delivering units into the field.

And this is for a reusable cruise missile.

I mean, this is a really complicated product.

With Dive, it was roughly on that same timeline, call it 18 months.

The challenge, of course, and the thing that we're focused on primarily as a business right now is production scaling.

How do you go from building hundreds of things or single-digit thousands of things to building tens of thousands of things?

And I think the name of the game in this autonomous future for national security is what we would call a treatable mass, which is like, you know, are we building $15 billion aircraft carriers, $300 million fighter planes in, you know, very small unit numbers?

Or are we building...

thousands or tens of thousands of much less expensive things that have comparable capabilities or better capabilities that if we lose them in combat, it's not the end of the world.

You can resupply that stuff really quickly.

But our production capacity in the United States has totally atrophied.

We just don't even have the capacity to do this anymore.