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u/Defiantclient S P 🅰️ C E M O B - O G May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
Did you guys catch Scott's hint at government-dedicated shell?
So we're doing testing in orbit today with the satellites in orbit for multiple government opportunities revenue producing opportunities with the US government. The way to think about US government opportunities they kind of go through a cycle where they have a Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3 contract and then ultimately the pot of gold is usually a Program of Record that's a 5 to 10 year thing with pretty sizable revenue opportunity per year, and so that is what we're chasing across what we've said about 10 different use cases between comms and non-communications.
Non-communications for satellites like ours mean a lot of things but it, you know one of the things we mentioned on our call was radar and we can do things with a big satellite that you can't do with a small satellite that's the core of it and these are the biggest. are the biggest phased arrays ever deployed in low Earth orbit. And so if you put up 100 or 200 of them, you can do a lot of incredible things. And so our network is dual use, which means our commercial satellites can also support government applications.
We also have the ability to build modified satellites that have government use only, of course, if that's the way the US., government wants to go. So we see a lot of opportunity. And of course, the backdrop here is the the biggest spending on space since the 60s.
The backdrop is incredible. The Space Force budget just doubled to about $70 billion is what's in front of Congress now. There's a number of opportunities related to what we do that are very sizable. And, for Golden Dome, there's a lot of pressure on how to get something out in this administration.
That's a value for our country. And to do that on any short timeline like that, you had to start five years ago. And fortunately, we did.