Beyond the Build - Skydio X10D: Decision Quality Data
Hear how the largest US drone manufacturer meets the security, reliability, and scale needs of defense customers while innovating at a pace that serves commercial customers.
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- So the current geopolitical landscape, uh, is driving a, a
- need for America to create our own drones.
- So being able to control, uh, our supply lines and being able to
- manufacture organically is a,
- a, a strategic game changer.
- The US has lagged behind China and our adversaries for a really long time
- in
- the drone industry. Our manufacturing capability has not been
- as good, and we
- haven't been able to innovate as quickly.
- I think Skydio is really changing that paradigm.
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- So reliability, scalability, and security, uh, do drive
- the vast majority of decisions, uh, that we make here at Skydio.
- We use the system as soldiers would use it.
- We make sure it's reliable in the way that they would need it to be reliable,
- and
- we do the testing to back it up.
- We're validating every single feature, every single flow that
- could happen to a user, nominal or off nominal, and making sure the
- experience is as seamless as possible.
- More so than any other vendor I've ever seen, we definitely optimize
- around cybersecurity and ensure that our customers can trust
- us. Some of the things that we've done are secure boot,
- NDA compliance, encryption,
- and keying on all of our hardware.
- We are the largest drone manufacturer in the United States, and we have been
- able to achieve a level of scale, uh, that no others have.
- So that is a tremendous differentiator.
- We just have a lot of urgency. We have the resources and the
- staffing and the structure to be able to execute things quickly and turn
- them around in the timeframe that customers actually need them.
- I think we at Skydio are in a great position because of our
- dual use nature.
- We can iterate faster in the commercial sphere than we
- can in the government sphere,
- and we're able to take some of those learnings and move them over to the
- military
- or the defense aspects. The rapidity at which that can happen is
- phenomenal at Skydio.
- Being a soldier, being with soldiers, having family and friends that
- are still soldiers, I'm just very, very pleased that the people that I care
- about and the US and our allies are able to get these capabilities as
- quickly as
- possible. We're able to really hear the problems
- that they have and
- be a voice for the capabilities that they need.
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