Government funding for FFRDCs is vital because they focus on foundational technologies that lack an immediate business case or profit margin, which private venture capital often overlooks.

“The government and the FFRDCs focus on necessary technology that there's no business case for.”

He believes the space industry will become a foundational sector, similar to the internet, that will enable future innovations like AI data centers in orbit.

“and then there's you don't need water to cool you don't need real estate you don't need to buy land you know large parcels of land takes several years to build a data center on the on the ground. It's it takes even if if you have launch and you can build spacecraft at scale you can actually mean lau”