1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: We've got good news for this tech company, SCIOs Aerospace. 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: So they've been invited by the UK Ministry of Defense 3 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: to help design next generation military drones. He's a AI 4 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 1: driven autonomous drones will operate alongside combat helicopters's future battlefield 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: support any Stephen Biers the aerospace CEO and he's also 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: the founder and he's with us. Morning Sam, Hey, good 7 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: morning Mike. 8 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 2: Thanks for having me. 9 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: Not at all your story seems fantastic. Is it as 10 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:25,240 Speaker 1: fantastic as it seems? 11 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 2: Well, certainly there's a there's a lot of good things 12 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 2: happening at SIS, with an incredible team, with relentless growth obviously, 13 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 2: so you know, this, this this latest bit of news 14 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 2: that the UK m o D just announced is great. 15 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 2: But you know, we're still we're still not we're not 16 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 2: under contract yet. This is we're just through the next 17 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 2: stage in procurement. So but we're we're we we are. 18 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 2: You know, it's fair to say we're now one of 19 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 2: seven that have been down selected for potential contract. So 20 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 2: it's fantastic obviously progress alongside these you know, huge corporates 21 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,639 Speaker 2: that are that are along with us. 22 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: You first came to my attention when the Prime Minister 23 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: was in this very studio waxing lyrical about you when 24 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: he went to Europe last year and you were there 25 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: doing a demonstration all that sort of stuff. How competitive 26 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: is the space that you're operating in. 27 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, so look at certainly the industry, there's a significant 28 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 2: number of companies in the sector. But you know when 29 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,119 Speaker 2: when people just say drones, everyone thinks of those little 30 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 2: you know, little drones that you can buy from JB 31 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:41,119 Speaker 2: Hi Fi. You know, actually what we do is uncrewed vehicles. Okay, 32 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 2: so we do uncrewed you know, large autonomous uncrewed boats, 33 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 2: large helicopters, large planes, armin ground vehicles and subsurface vehicles 34 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 2: as well. So actually the sort of the our vehicles 35 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 2: are pretty advanced, and obviously we have a number of 36 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 2: competitors around the world, but that's really where we strive 37 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 2: to have a really solid unique selling point, being you know, 38 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 2: ultimately a key week company. You know, we're really focused 39 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 2: on rapid development and delivering capability at a very affordable cost. 40 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: Is military where it's Ed's watching Bick the other day 41 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: rocket Lab with hig Seth and he's there they're taking 42 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: off no pun intended with the military side of the 43 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 1: equation is that were you're at. 44 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good pun. So look, certainly we're we're 45 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 2: a jewel use company. We we we ken sell into 46 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 2: the civil sector as well as we believe it's really 47 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 2: important for defense as well. You know, it's significantly difficulty 48 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 2: of politically and in stable world at the minute, and 49 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 2: we see actually what we're delivering can really help New 50 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 2: Zealand and New Zealand allies and friends to actually have 51 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 2: the terrence on on within there than their forces. When 52 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 2: are you going to know, well, we're actually in We've 53 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 2: got a few, we've got a few contracts we're pushing 54 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 2: on at the minute. So in regards to this particular 55 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 2: one project next it's obviously quite quite a large one 56 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 2: where you will be expecting to be Dwan selected to 57 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 2: find out if we're dance elected to the final four 58 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 2: over the next couple of months. 59 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: Fantastic, Go well, we'll catch up with you again when 60 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: the news comes through. Appreciate it, prett much Stambay who 61 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: was the Science Aerospace CEO and founder and of course 62 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: obviously geography is no particular in pedant that was the thing. 63 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: So they were over there demonstrating with Luxon when he 64 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: was there last year, and Luxon was telling me all 65 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: about it. There was and then of course you might 66 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: have seen late later last year Collins Defense Minister was 67 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: at the headquarters in I think it's the Bay of Plenty, 68 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: running around with these big multi wheel driverless cars that 69 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: looked super cool. 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