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Dino Mavrookas
Saronic Technologies
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The commitments around it: 'We're going to invest billions of dollars. We're going to create 10,000 jobs. We're going to bring online 150,000 gross tons of shipbuilding capacity pretty much on our first phase' @4:24, which he sizes at '1.5x the total shipbuilding capacity in this country today' @4:37.
“We're going to break ground in '26. We're going to be operational in '28. That's because that's what this country needs. We need to be able to build ships again.”
Directly answering 'do you think the U.S. can beat China when it comes to shipbuilding and autonomous vessels?' He concedes the conventional gap - 'China outbuilds us 230 to 1' @3:52 and 'We have 0.1 percent of shipbuilding capacity' @3:59 - and stakes the win on asymmetric autonomy, 'ships that can be built cheaper and at higher rates and controlled by software' @9:13.
“We are going to beat China in the new way. We are going to outproduce China by building autonomous vessels, by building the future of the maritime industry, by building software-defined platforms”
Referring to the president's request: 'He's requested $1.5 trillion for the new budget moving forward' @8:15; today's baseline is 'the Department of War is only spending 1% on autonomy' @8:05, and he wants the 99/1 mix shifted 'more towards new systems' @8:32. Also: 'This is the fastest I have seen the government move on anything in my lifetime. That said, we're still in the early days, like very, very early innings' @7:51.
“A lot of that is going to go towards autonomy, and that's exactly what we need.”
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