Lt. Gen. Jeth Rey: Leading the Army's Data-Centric Battlefield Transformation
Many U.S. Army leaders have taken unconventional journeys to where they are today, but Lt. Gen. Jeth Rey's may be one of the most unique. After spending his formative years in the U.S. Virgin Islands ...
22 Jun 39min
Mikey Dickerson: Crisis engineering
The U.S. government is no stranger to a good crisis, and neither is Mikey Dickerson, the inaugural administrator of the U.S. Digital Service under the Obama administration who served as one of the Whi...
8 Jun 48min
Brandon Pugh: The Army's Cyber and Kinetic Missions are Converging
From operations in Venezuela to Iran, defensive and offensive cyber capabilities have publicly been credited by senior defense leaders as critical elements to success in those kinetic missions. As pri...
1 Jun 37min
Tyler Sweatt: Accelerating Software Deployment to Keep Pace with Wartime Urgency
When it comes to the adoption and deployment of modern software, the U.S. military has a speed problem. That’s where innovative companies like Second Front Sytems come in. A public benefit corporation...
4 Mai 47min
Scott Kupor: What the Government Can Learn from Silicon Valley on Managing Tech Talent
Scott Kupor built a storied career as employee No. 1 at preeminent Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz. So why uproot that to take a job as the director of the federal government's ...
13 Apr 45min
Marc Andersen: The CFO Fueling the Army's Transformation
Defense modernization often gets talked about in terms of platforms, programs, and technology. But there's a harder, less glamorous question underneath all of it: Can the money follow the mission fast...
6 Apr 49min
Mike Madsen: Institutionalizing defense innovation — from inside and out
Back in 2015, then-Secretary of Defense Ash Carter launched the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx, as small team of innovators and bureaucracy hackers to bridge the Valley of Death between...
30 Mar 42min
Katrina Manson: Project Maven and the Advent of Algorithmic Warfare
To truly understand the Pentagon’s approach to adopting AI and how it navigates the moral and ethical dilemmas present with the use of autonomy for lethal decisions, you really have to go back to the ...
24 Mar 44min
