So, and what was it i- in the military? Like, what was that one moment when you served as this physicist, as you're going through these 13 years, that really struck you of like, "Man, the military has got to get their act together." Or like, "This is the biggest frustration I have." Like, what was that moment? What was that catalyst?

Yeah, so I...

It was actually connected to the, you know, my deployment.

In working with the maintenance unit, there was a ton of maintenance a- you know, analyst work that was going on, and disproportionately it was done on Excel.

So you had, you know, I was, uh, part of the first, like, forward deployed F-22 deployment and, and that was, you know, one of the, the systems that the maintenance squadron that I was associated with was working on.

And a lot of their maintenance was, like I said, a lot of their work was literally just in, in Excel all day, and, and it literally blew my mind.

Here you have this multi-mega, many billions of dollars system, and of course, the prime contractor also has their maintenance system.

So what are you guys doing with the F-22? What is that gonna look like for F-22 in the battle space because of your effort?

What is it that you tell them you're doing differently, Rob?

Really, it just starts with the problem.

I think, obviously, people know and follow the news.

Everybody, I think, in this country believes and understands how lethal and effective the U.S. military is.

But a lot of that lethality, a lot of that capability was developed over the series of many decades.

Meanwhile, the software world has completely reinvented itself over the last couple of years.

So really, I think what investors are coming to realize is not only is there a massive need, but there's a massive market.

Has that changed how the military apparatus views its procurement of software? And how fast are you able to grow your contracts with the defense industrial base?

Yeah

... uh, in South America obviously highlights this stuff.

Um, but there's real significant tech challenges, uh, that, you know, as a company, we, we really strive to solve.

Uh, so we're super excited to, to talk about the Series B and, uh, you know, announce, uh, a lot of the good stuff that we're doing.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and so what we do as a company is we have an open-source baseline called UDS that allows people to integrate in an open-source fashion.

We have the ability to take those applications and, you know, on unclassified environments, classified environments, and really, our bread and butter is extending those to actual wea- edge weapon systems.

Um, so things, you know, F-16s, F-22s.