Modern War’s Cost Problem and America’s Response | Rep. Pat Harrigan (NC-10)
Congressman Pat Harrigan (NC-10), former Army Special Forces officer and defense manufacturer, joins the show to talk about why he ran for office after the fall of Afghanistan and what that moment sig...
9 Jan 52min
Labs vs Startups, GR vs PEO, and Selling Into DoD Without Losing Your Mind | Scott Sanders
Scott Sanders is the Chief Growth Officer at Forterra. Scott joins us to talk about counter-UAS, unmanned systems, and why scaling hardware is fundamentally different from software.We cover USVs and U...
2 Jan 1h 18min
Understanding Modern China, From AI to Taiwan | Shannon Vaughn
Shannon Vaughn breaks down how modern China actually works, why the CCP’s primary objective is regime survival, and how that shapes everything from AI policy to military strategy. Order Jeffrey Ding's...
19 Dec 20251h 11min
Scaling Edge AI and Robotics in the Real World | Hunter Dunbar (Audio Only)
Defense tech, robotics, and edge AI are moving fast, but scaling them in the real world is hard. Hunter Dunbar, Chief Product Officer at Luxonis, joins the show to break down embedded computer vision,...
16 Dec 20251h 39min
Building Low-Cost Deep Strike Weapons for Modern War | Mike Weigand
Mike Weigand, Founder and CEO of Aventra Defense Systems, joins the show to unpack a radically different approach to long-range strike and mass precision. Aventra Defense SystemsMike Weigand on Linked...
12 Dec 20251h 3min
The Rare Earths Problem: Inside America’s Supply Chain Fight | Drew Horn
Drew Horne, founder and CEO of GreenMet, joins the show to break down the rare earth crisis and what the United States needs to do to remain competitive. He previously led critical minerals policy wor...
28 Nov 20251h 2min
Defense Production, China, and American Power | Morgan Murphy
Morgan Murphy joins the show to talk national security, defense manufacturing, and why he’s running for U.S. Senate in Alabama. Murphy is a 26-year Navy Reserve captain, former Pentagon press secretar...
14 Nov 202559min
Why True Drone Swarms Don't Exist Yet | Emma Bates
Emma Bates, co-founder and CEO of Cachai, joins the show to break down what true drone swarming actually means and why almost no one has achieved it. Drawing from her background in defense modernizati...
8 Nov 20251h 18min
