Bryon Hargis
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“The key thing that I think has been missing in the past decades is that we do not build enough, we do not go test enough, and they're correcting that. And that's going to lead to tremendous innovation in this space.”
Bryon Hargis · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-26
Hargis said increased building and testing will lead to tremendous innovation in defense.
“One of the things that we based the company on is really what worked in the Apollo era when we got to the moon as a country in under a decade. A lot of those practices have fallen out of favor. We're going back to what worked, and we're just implementing that again.”
Bryon Hargis · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-26
Hargis cited Apollo-era practices as inspiration for Castelion's manufacturing strategy.
“We believe that it's much faster if you just go out and build the object you're trying to build into inner manufacturing, and then you find all of the problems in that process, and you correct them,”
Bryon Hargis · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-26
Hargis explained Castelion's approach of accelerating manufacturing by building and correcting problems in the process.
“If we meet those performance targets that we set out and said we could do, the department is saying they're gonna come in and buy a tremendous amount of munitions.”
Bryon Hargis · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-26
Hargis said the department would purchase large quantities of munitions if Castelion meets its performance targets.
“The future is very bright. We have a tremendous opportunity with this administration and what the department is doing to bring in new entrants,”
Bryon Hargis · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-26
Hargis expressed optimism about opportunities for new entrants under the current administration.
“It's just the agreement to have a future agreement,”
Bryon Hargis · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-26
Hargis described a War Department multi-year agreement to eventually field Castelion's Blackbeard Hypersonic Weapon.