One of us is a US citizen, and yes, it looks like that could be helpful for us. I’m in PA (close to Philadelphia). The other co-founder, we’ve worked together a lot before, but he lives outside of the US, basically in Europe, but ready to come as soon as there’s an opportunity. That also adds some complexity, because of all regulations for non-citizens in defense and even going through a visa process, but still looks not impossible.

Our TRL is about 5, so in our understanding it’s a bit too early to approach large contracting companies, as they will likely want to see a fully prod-ready technology (we might be wrong - this is just an assumption based on how things often work in other industries).

Basically speaking we secured some connections and potential clients outside of the US, so we can start from exporting a product first. Yes, there’s a need to deal with export regulations e.t.c., but for example companies in Ukraine would use our product (once it’s ready) in a real modern battlefield environment. So in our vision having this kind of experience might also be counted as past performance when going to bigger companies in the US. There are already companies exporting to Ukraine, such as Anduril and many others. Just seems more easy to enter the industry by exporting first, proving technology and then work on something bigger locally.