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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: You must get to defense tech startup Anderill being selected

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Speaker 2: and having selected Ohio as the location of a new

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Speaker 2: manufacturing facility that will produce tens of thousands of autonomous

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Speaker 2: systems and weapons annually. All this part of a plan

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Speaker 2: to become a key provider of drones and other technology

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Speaker 2: for the US military. Let's bringing our own ed Ludlow,

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Speaker 2: who's in rather cold Ohio right now, ed.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Caroline. At full capacity. Arsenal one will be

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Speaker 3: five million square feet, it will create four thousand jobs

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Speaker 3: over ten years, and Andreil's putting a billion dollars of

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Speaker 3: its own cash into the project. Who better to discuss

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Speaker 3: that with than with one of the co founders of Anderil,

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Speaker 3: Palmer Lucky, also chief technology officer.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 3: It's incredibly aggressive. The timeline to manufacture the first phase

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Speaker 3: of this site and then start production mid twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: How big a fact is that timeline in the highest

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Speaker 3: selection Partmer.

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Speaker 4: It has to be this fast because we don't have

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Speaker 4: time for business as usual. The types of threats threats

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Speaker 4: of the United States is facing that our allies around

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Speaker 4: the world are facing the fact that we are predicted

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Speaker 4: to run out of munitions within the first eight days

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Speaker 4: of a potential conflict with China mean that we need

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Speaker 4: to hyper scale our manufacturing of these.

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Speaker 3: So was this the only state that could guarantee that timeline?

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Speaker 4: I think that they were the state that gave us

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Speaker 4: the best shot of hitting that timeline.

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Speaker 1: Look, we've really engaged well with.

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Speaker 4: Jobs Ohio with a lot of the politicians here, not

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Speaker 4: just at the state level, with the local level. You know,

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Speaker 4: like you said, we're hiring four thousand people here in

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Speaker 4: direct jobs, a lot more jobs than that in a

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Speaker 4: direct or sorry, an indirect capacity. It's the largest single

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Speaker 4: job creation event in Ohio history.

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Speaker 1: It was a state that told us we have the workforce.

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Speaker 4: We have a million people who are capable of working

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Speaker 4: in the facility within a forty five minute drive. We're

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Speaker 4: willing to work with you on higher education to help train.

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Speaker 1: People so that they can come in and they can

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Speaker 1: work with you.

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Speaker 4: Our customer in the form of the United air The

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Speaker 4: United States Air Force obviously is a huge presence here

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Speaker 4: in the form of Right Patterson Air Force Base.

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Speaker 1: So really all the scars.

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Speaker 4: Aligned to make Ohio a great place for us to

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Speaker 4: do it and to do it fast, and speaking candidly

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Speaker 4: as someone who is from California, there's some states that

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Speaker 4: are really good at pushing you out and slowing you down,

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Speaker 4: and there's others that are great at pulling you in

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Speaker 4: and speeding you up.

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Speaker 1: And that's what Ohio was.

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Speaker 3: Let's go there was California at any point a likely candidate,

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Speaker 3: and if not, why.

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Speaker 4: There was a zero percent chance at any point of

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Speaker 4: Arsenal one being located in California.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of reasons for that, but I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can go through them.

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Speaker 4: It's the high cost of living, It's the very high

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Speaker 4: energy cost, It's in some cases, the unreliability of the

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Speaker 1: It's the unreliability of the.

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Speaker 4: State politics and the worry on the regulatory side, and

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Speaker 4: just you know, the reality is California has enough money

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Speaker 4: and enough really successful companies that they don't really have

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Speaker 4: to worry about a company like Mind, a company like Androl.

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Speaker 4: The jobs that we are bringing here to Ohio, they

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Speaker 4: are material and they are something that the state really

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Speaker 4: really cares about. And it doesn't hurt that one of

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Speaker 4: our co founders, Tray Stevens, is Nato Bourne, Ohio, and

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Speaker 4: I won't say that's why that we made the final decision,

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Speaker 4: but I definitely made sure that Ohio was at the

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Speaker 4: top of the list from the beginning.

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Speaker 3: What you did say as a company is that it

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Speaker 3: had nothing to do with Vice President elect JD Vans. No,

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Speaker 3: that was not a fact.

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Speaker 4: This decision has been going on a lot longer than that.

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Speaker 4: We're finally able to talk about it today. But I mean,

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Speaker 4: you saw the renders, you saw the site, the site plans,

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Speaker 4: things like that take a long time to put together.

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Speaker 4: We raised our one point five billion dollar round of

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Speaker 3: One of the questions from our audience on social media

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Speaker 3: was about the jobs. Yep, four thousand over ten years.

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Speaker 3: There must be a mix of those originating from Ohio,

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Speaker 3: but you must also be trying to attract talent out

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Speaker 3: of state to move here. And I know you'll be

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Speaker 3: spending a lot of time here as well.

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Speaker 1: Well. I'm definitely going to be buying the house out here.

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Speaker 4: I'm blessed with financial success from my first company, Oculus

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Speaker 4: don't have to get a hotel room when I'm spending

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Speaker 4: time out here. The thing about you, like, Yes, we're

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Speaker 4: gonna hire a lot of nato oh islands. I think

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Speaker 4: we're also going to have a lot of people who

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Speaker 4: are imports, who are coming in and adding to the

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Speaker 4: economy here. You look at our headquarters in California, we're

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Speaker 4: about eighty percent imports. About eighty percent of our employees

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Speaker 4: I think we're gonna do. I think we're gonna we're

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Speaker 4: gonna bring a lot of people here as well. Maybe

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Speaker 4: not eighty percent, but there's gonna be a lot of

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Speaker 4: people who are moving to the area economically building it up.

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Speaker 3: The supply chain you hire is actually very interesting. So

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Speaker 3: you will have use of two runways where we are

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Speaker 3: now Rickonbucket Airport.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 3: But my understanding is that take, for example, Fury behind us.

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Speaker 3: In some cases you'll be able literally to take off

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Speaker 3: from the runway which is just a few feet from

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Speaker 3: where we're sitting, and deliver that technology direct to customer, explain.

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Speaker 1: Direct to customer, or directly to the action.

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Speaker 4: I mean, so this is Fury, this is our CCA

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Speaker 4: collaborative combat aircraft. It's basically an autonomous loyal wingman fighter

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Speaker 4: jet that can fight alongside F thirty and other fighters

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Speaker 4: of the United States and.

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Speaker 1: Our allies use.

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Speaker 4: But you're right, the goal here is that we can

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Speaker 4: manufacture these aircraft at scale, thousands of these spider jets here,

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Speaker 4: and then we can either fly them directly to the

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Speaker 4: customer or in some cases directly to the theater.

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Speaker 1: Of course, probably with refueling stops along the way.

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Speaker 4: But that's that's what we did during World War Two,

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Speaker 4: and that's what we plan on doing it again.

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Speaker 3: Ohio is quite busy. Intel has a fab going up

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Speaker 3: that's right quite nearby. Do you see that as a

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Speaker 3: as value add to being here.

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Speaker 1: It's both.

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Speaker 4: There's value added, and of course I'm probably going to

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Speaker 4: hire some of their people and they're going to hire

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Speaker 1: That's just the way that these things always go.

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Speaker 4: What you want to try to do is create make

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Speaker 4: the area more attractive in general, right right, Like if

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Speaker 4: andro was here and we were the only company that

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Speaker 4: really world class people to want to stay in the

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Speaker 4: game in town. When they know that it's a healthy

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Speaker 4: ecosystem of career choices, it's a lot easier to get

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Speaker 4: people to come even if you if you do, manage.

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Speaker 3: To keep them around Palmer. When I spoke to Ohio

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Speaker 3: Governor Mike Dewayan earlier, I asked him what was the

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Speaker 3: sort of single biggest factor that gave him conviction about

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Speaker 3: you meeting your timelines, not just for manufacturing, but your

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Speaker 3: commitments to this state. In my career, with respect, every

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Speaker 3: many billions of dollars they've raised from private sources, venture

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Speaker 3: private growth equity, have never met their manufacturing timelines. There's

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Speaker 3: always slippage. Granted the pandemic's been a factory. He said

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Speaker 3: that that factor was you and your colleagues. Just from

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Speaker 3: meeting you, you are the point of difference. What can

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Speaker 3: you tell me about how the team guarantees that twenty

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Speaker 4: I think that, like I said earlier, we don't have

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Speaker 4: time for business as usual right now. People are predicting

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Speaker 4: That means that you necessarily need to be ready for

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Speaker 4: So we have to write there's there's no other option.

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Speaker 4: The whole point here, the reason we raised that one

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Speaker 4: accelerating this process, the reason that we're investing in building

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Speaker 4: this factory ahead of the customer actually paying us to

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Speaker 4: do it, is because we believe in that timeline.

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Speaker 1: Because we have to believe in it. It is it

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Speaker 1: is critical that we hit it, and I think we will.

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Speaker 3: Are you guessing some financial incentives from the States.

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Speaker 1: Of the High Absolutely they were.

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Speaker 4: They gave us a great incentive package, and that was

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they did a better job negotiating than

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Speaker 1: So I'm really glad that they're down the road from US.

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Speaker 3: Palmer, it's important to have some extended time with you

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Speaker 3: to talk about Arsenal one. I think one of the

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Speaker 3: but could we just simply talk about what Arsenal one

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Speaker 4: The way we look at ourselves is as a defense

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Speaker 4: product company, not a contractor, but a product company, meaning

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Speaker 4: we take a product company approach. We decide what to

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Speaker 4: we invest our own money into making that happen. Then

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Speaker 4: we sell products to the customer. Now we work hand

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Speaker 4: in hand with customers through that process. It's not like

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Speaker 4: I can go off and build a batmobile and try

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Speaker 4: to sell it to them because I think it's cool,

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Speaker 4: but I think that I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: What was the second part of the question I heard question?

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Speaker 4: So the things that we're building, they're driven by what

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Speaker 4: our own money in them. So obviously we're building Fury,

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Speaker 1: Behind you, you.

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Speaker 4: See all three of the different Barracuda cruise missile family,

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Speaker 4: The process is building this place up in a way

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Speaker 1: And you keep hitting it.

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Speaker 3: Four months from now, you and I will sit down again,

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Speaker 4: As you know, the United States government has taken in

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Speaker 4: Because the only thing that being an accredited investor means

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Speaker 1: Do it again.

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Speaker 3: Department of Defense. President elect Trump's pick is mister Henk.

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Speaker 3: Say that's right, you know he was not one of

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Speaker 4: I heard a lot of the names coming around, and

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Speaker 3: May I just make a point that, you know, look

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Speaker 3: at his CV. He doesn't have experience running an organization

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Speaker 4: I think that there's a lot of credentialism that is

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Speaker 1: I started Oculus.

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Speaker 4: I didn't have the experience to be running arol either.

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Speaker 4: I'd absolutely no business running this company. People could have

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Speaker 4: made the exact same criticism. What ells Palmer know about

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Speaker 1: Yeah, his heart's in the right place, but he's just

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Speaker 4: I don't think he's qualified. No, He's way more qualified

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Speaker 4: So I mean, God bless him. I think that he's

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Speaker 3: I think he's going to kick ass Palmer. Let's end

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Speaker 3: on President Electrum. But in the context of Arsenal one,

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Speaker 3: you still believe change is needed in that military industrial

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Speaker 3: complex procurement process. Absolutely, what specifically needs to change under

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Speaker 4: I think that we well, I think Arsenal one is

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Speaker 4: I don't think that we actually need radical changes in

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Speaker 1: We need to take targeted risks.

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Speaker 4: We need to get more companies into defense manufacturing. That

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Speaker 3: Palmer Lucky Andrew co founder Always a Pleasure Technology Officer.

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Speaker 3: Here Columbus, Ohio area the site the future site of

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Speaker 3: Arsenal one