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#82 Bobby Sakaki, UAS Nexus: Drone industrial base, NDAA, Blue UAS
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In this episode, we sit down with Bobby Sakaki, an expert in small UAS technology and CEO of UAS Nexus. Bobby shares his insights on the critical role drones play in defense, particularly in light of their impact in Ukraine, and highlights concerns about the lack of a strong and coordinated U.S. and Western industrial base for affordable, competitive drone components. He explores the challenges facing the drone industry, including engineering, supply chain limitations, raising capital, and scaling manufacturing capabilities.
Bobby talks about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Blue UAS program, and MOSA (Modular Open Systems Approach), explaining their importance in ensuring secure and reliable drone technology while addressing differences and challenges in implementation. He provides a breakdown of the drone technology stack (autopilots, radios, payloads, batteries, motors, ESCs and other components) and discusses the need for Western alternatives to Chinese suppliers. Bobby also shares insights from his recent trip to Europe, contrasting the region’s pace of innovation and fundraising environment with the U.S. The conversation wraps up with his predictions for the next five years in the drone industry, the use cases likely to emerge, and his picks for the top five companies making significant strides in the space.
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1. #82 Bobby Sakaki, UAS Nexus: Drone industrial base, NDAA, Blue UAS (00:00:00)
2. Friction within the drone industry (00:06:45)
3. State of the drone industry in Europe (00:10:47)
4. On a journey of figuring out what people are building (00:14:36)
5. What the industry is struggling with (00:16:52)
6. Chinese drone component industrial base (00:21:44)
7. Preserving our quality of life (00:27:16)
8. Building a U.S. drone industrial base (00:30:34)
9. The drone tech stack and its dependence on foreign supply chains (00:37:07)
10. Striking the right sourcing strategy (00:45:28)
11. NDAA compliance (00:48:52)
12. Blue UAS (00:58:33)
13. MOSA (01:08:48)
14. The next five years (01:14:26)
15. Most impressive players in the industry (01:15:26)
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