Aug. 11, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| 2005 when Hurricane Katrina happened and I was a B-2 pilot at Whiteman. | |
| You know, I was a captain in the Air Force. | |
| And if you remember at the time, we had basically a collapse of the governing structure in New Orleans at the time. | |
| And it was chaos. | |
| People were dying. | |
| And they actually redeployed troops from combat in Iraq to New Orleans because of what was going on. | |
| And I remember them interviewing the troops when they landed in New Orleans. | |
| They're like, oh my God, it seems like I didn't leave Iraq. | |
| It's the same kind of conditions. | |
| And this is a modern city in America. | |
| After just a couple of days of lack of communications, lack of power, we built this very fragile system for warning our population in the event of bad things happening. | |
| Maui fire, LA fire, Hurricane Helene, all of these crises that take down communications. | |
| 9-11. | |
| We were supposed to make our communication system resilient and effective, and essentially we didn't. | |
| And so what I said is, I'm going to do this as a private sector initiative. | |
| We started the company. | |
| Actually, it's a hard thing to do to take an entire national digital infrastructure and say, how do we make it resilient? | |
| How do we make it secure? | |
| So yeah, that's what we've been working on for the last six years. | |
| And we've cracked the code. | |
| For us to establish the infrastructure that supports civil society, like I was talking about with Hurricane Katrina, any of these crises, you actually need a terrestrial network that continues to operate. | |
| So we basically build ourselves into our technology, into the existing networks to enable those. | |
| So if those networks fail, if the grid fails, those networks fail, our network continues to operate. | |
| So it operates at a reduced capacity, but it continues to operate in a way that allows your phone to continue to work and give you those essential services. | |
| And the way we did that is just using a universal military precept, which is you don't do centralized anything. | |
| American does centralized command, but decentralized execution. | |
| In our infrastructure today, it is all about centralized execution. | |
| Why? | |
| Because the carriers and the clouds want to save money. | |
| So they're all centralized. | |
| What that means to me as a B-2 guy is I only have a couple of targets I need to hit. | |
| I just got to hit the brain. | |
| I got to hit a couple of Amazon sites. | |
| I need to hit a couple of ATT, Verizon, and T-Mobile sites, and I can take down communications and computing services for the entire United States. | |
| And that's what a B-2, that's the way a B-2 pilot would think about how do we shut it down. | |
| Well, what do you think the Chinese are thinking about? | |
| Exactly the same. | |
| Same thing with the Russians. | |
| And so what we did is we took that centralized architecture and said, well, we need to put decentralized capability at each of our locations where you're connecting to those cell sites. | |
| That decentralized technology, basically we took the cellular network and the cloud and we smashed it together in a little thing and we place that at each of the locations where you want to have continue survivable communication. |
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