Trae (Trey) Stephens

used very loosely.

But if you're going to set up an assembly line for something that's going to be produced over and over again, certainly you could build in entire steps of that that can be purely automated.

And this is what companies like Tesla have done significantly better than the traditional automakers.

But you also have a bunch of people involved, and you're constantly moving things around.

The government isn't just going to have an insatiable demand for any single one of our products.

We're going to have to make the factory modular enough that we can be responsive to the needs of the warfighter.

So sometimes the factory might be pumping out autonomous Fury fighter planes.

At other times, it might be pumping out Roadrunners.

At other times, it might be pumping out Barracudas.

And so moving that around, reconfiguring the space so that we can meet those production demands, there's gonna be a lot of people involved with that.

Well, I mean, the idea is that it will be modular and flexible.

And so we can reset things to rebuild these lines that enable us to scale.

The Ukraine story is a great example here.

So despite what most people think, the supply that the United States was giving to Ukraine was mostly Cold War era technology, javelins, stingers, things like that.

These things were built in the 60s and the 70s.

And when we realized that we were burning all of our inventory in that supply mission to Ukraine, it's not like the manufacturer of those weapons systems had active production facilities.

They didn't exist.

These companies were pulling people out of retirement.

to rebuild assembly lines to make these weapon systems.

And so this is what we're trying to avoid.