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Do you think that these startup companies are somehow going to factor in more than the big behemoth companies that we've dealt with for years and years and years? Well, I think I think the startups are gonna be kind of the the future startups have this ability of innovation to move at a faster speed and and a more innovative technology, more creativity in the process out-of-the-box thinking that we desperately need for our defense industrial base, we need to invest more heavily in new entrants so that we have further innovation in the space. Defense technology company Castilian says one of its priorities is speeding up the manufacturing timeline. Your company. Was the current cost and cycle time to develop and and maintain defense hardware is is unsustainable? Why is that and how do you change it? We believe that it's much faster if you just go out and build the object you're trying to build into inner manufacturing, and then you find all of the problems in that process and you correct them. One of the things that we based the company on is really what worked in the Apollo era. When we got to the moon as a country in under a decade, a lot of those practices have fallen, fallen out of favor. We're going back to what worked and we're just implementing the that. Again, the War Department is investing in that. Strategy with a multi year agreement to eventually field Castilians. Blackbeard Hypersonic Weapon, the head of acquisitions for the Pentagon. Talked about longer term deals and how that's changing things because this place, the capital has worked on one year funding which companies can't even deal with. That's correct. It's just the agreement to have a future agreement. If we meet those performance targets that we set out and said we could do, the department is saying they're going to come in and buy a tremendous amount of munitions. Castellion has secured $500 million in U.S. military contracts over the past 18 months and recently announced $1 billion in funding. What do you see for the future of of startups in this kind of realm? The future is very bright. We have a tremendous opportunity with this administration and what the department is doing. Bring in new entrance. Key things that I think has been missing in the past decades is that we do not build enough, we do not go test enough, and they're correcting that and that's going to lead to tremendous innovation in this space. With startups at the forefront of our next generation of missile technology, many are working to develop hypersonic capabilities.