Competing with SpaceX: America Was Built on Competition - Lockheed Martin CTO | AI Podcast Clips
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00:00:02.580 | - What are your thoughts on the efforts of the new folks,
00:00:12.820 | SpaceX and Elon Musk?
00:00:15.820 | What are your thoughts about what Elon is doing?
00:00:17.820 | Do you see him as competition?
00:00:19.580 | Do you enjoy competition?
00:00:21.140 | What are your thoughts?
00:00:23.180 | - Yeah, first of all, certainly Elon, I'd say SpaceX
00:00:28.060 | and some of his other ventures
00:00:30.140 | are definitely a competitive force in the space industry.
00:00:35.140 | And do we like competition?
00:00:36.820 | Yeah, we do.
00:00:38.420 | And we think we're very strong competitors.
00:00:42.460 | I think it's, you know,
00:00:44.220 | competition is what the US is founded on in a lot of ways
00:00:49.020 | and always coming up with a better way.
00:00:51.580 | And I think it's really important to continue,
00:00:56.060 | you know, to have fresh eyes coming in, new innovation.
00:00:59.900 | I do think it's important to have level playing fields.
00:01:02.420 | And so you wanna make sure
00:01:04.020 | that you're not giving different requirements
00:01:08.140 | to different players.
00:01:09.740 | But, you know, I tell people, you know,
00:01:12.460 | I spent a lot of time at places like MIT.
00:01:14.460 | I'm gonna be at the MIT Beaverworks Summer Institute
00:01:17.520 | over the weekend here.
00:01:19.020 | And I tell people, this is the most exciting time
00:01:21.980 | to be in the space business in my entire life.
00:01:25.340 | And it is this explosion of new capabilities
00:01:29.900 | that have been driven by things like the, you know,
00:01:32.940 | the massive increase in computing power,
00:01:35.780 | things like the massive increase in comms capabilities,
00:01:39.980 | advanced and additive manufacturing
00:01:42.060 | are really bringing down the barriers to entry in this field
00:01:46.420 | and it's driving just incredible innovation.
00:01:48.820 | It's happening at startups,
00:01:49.960 | but it's also happening at Lockheed Martin.
00:01:52.480 | I talked about some of these like, you know,
00:01:54.280 | Maya and Orion, but, you know,
00:01:56.460 | we're in the middle of what we call smartsats
00:01:59.540 | and software-defined satellites
00:02:01.180 | that can essentially restructure and remap their purpose,
00:02:05.960 | their mission on orbit to give you almost, you know,
00:02:09.380 | unlimited flexibility for these satellites
00:02:11.900 | over their lifetimes.
00:02:13.380 | So those are just a couple of examples,
00:02:15.600 | but yeah, this is a great time to be in space.
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