It's a little late to be brainstorming low-cost platforms for sea-based logistics (read: Pacific-based). First flight of a full-scale prototype by 2027? Not a

It's a little late to be brainstorming low-cost platforms for sea-based logistics (read: Pacific-based). First flight of a full-scale prototype by 2027? Not any of the legacy defense prime (Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed, etc.). They probably stopped reading at "low-cost design" anyway. Of the defense tech companies that CAN move fast enough and have the technical expertise (Anduril, Kratos, anyone else?), this is so far out of their wheelhouse and the $15M incentive is simply not worth it for the substantial chunk of their resources that they would need to stake on a large-scale program with no obvious path to operational relevance & Program of Record status. It's a cool idea, and the history of similar platforms is fun, but it's tough to see how this becomes real.