The test environment? A small boat in Palau, halfway across the world, after a monsoon.

We were literally on a small 15-foot flat-bottomed boat going across the Pacific after a monsoon had hit somewhere, and just crazy waves.

I was literally sitting on top of our Pelican cases, trying to keep them from going, and I was nervous.

I was like, "We just built this stuff.

I don't know if it's strong enough to survive this trip." And I remember our program leader was with us, and he turned around and looked at me, and I think he said to someone else, "Oh, does he get boat sick?" And he's like, "No, I think he's just terrified that we're gonna lose the equipment." [laughs] So we got out there, and the systems worked exactly how we wanted to and expected.

It was great for the technology.

They act as a single coordinated team, and they move at a pace few can match.

We have people with skill sets that pretty much can do everything we need, and if we identify new ones as new projects or new things change, we try to find people to fill those out.