Christian SanzWe’ve always measured power by what you can move.
Cargo. People. Munitions. Data. The ability to move things… across distance, across borders, across time, has defined economic strength, military reach, and political influence for centuries.
But movement has always been gated by humans. Drivers. Pilots. Coordinators. Authorizers. Even the fastest delivery still depends on someone scheduling it, launching it, clearing it.
That’s what’s breaking.
We’re entering a phase where systems don’t just move faster. They move without waiting. Autonomous logistics networks. Self-directed cargo drones. Uncrewed air transport. These aren’t efficiencies. They’re a rewiring of the global operating model. We’re seeing this firsthand in the work on Phalanx—how you coordinate autonomy at scale—and in the Delta series, where every prototype reveals a new constraint on movement we didn’t expect.
When we go from moving 1,000 units a day to 5,000 without needing 5,000 more people to manage it, the center of gravity shifts. You don’t just compete on cost anymore. You compete on autonomy, on responsiveness, on who gets there first… and stays.
This has real implications.
Who owns the corridors in the sky? Who governs unmanned aerial routes? What happens when adversaries deploy faster than you can detect? Or when your ability to project presence falls behind your ability to authorize it?
It’s not just about tech.
It’s about who defines the lanes, who gets to move freely, and who doesn’t. We’re not just building faster movement. We’re building new rules of engagement for the physical world.