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- 4 days ago14 min
Episode 6: Lukas Czinger — One Factory, Any Product
Recorded live at Creative Disruptors by the Lakes in Saint Paul, CDF Advisory Board Member Susan Miller sits down with Lukas Czinger, CEO and co-founder of Divergent, to discuss how product-agnostic manufacturing can deliver scale, resilience, and lower unit costs for the defense industrial base.
- 1 weeks ago14 min
Episode 5: The Hon. James Mazol — Faster Yeses, Faster Noes
Recorded live at Creative Disruptors by the Lakes in Saint Paul, CDF Advisory Board Member Mike MacKay sits down with the Honorable James Mazol, Deputy Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, to discuss how the Department is aligning its R&D priorities, why faster yeses and faster noes matter for industry, and how AI is driving a revolution in military affairs.
- 1 weeks ago12 min
Episode 4: John Conafay, Integrate — Nodes in the Network
Recorded live at Creative Disruptors by the Lakes in Saint Paul, CDF Advisory Board Member Susan Miller sits down with John Conafay, CEO and co-founder of Integrate, which builds cross-boundary, real-time collaboration software for the defense industrial base.
- 1 weeks ago17 min
Episode 3: Jennifer McArdle, Helsing US — Invent It Here, Build It Here
CDF Advisory Board Member Susan Buikema-Miller sits down with Dr. Jennifer McArdle, General Manager of Helsing U.S., for a conversation on closing the gap between inventing and building critical defense technologies in America.
- 1 weeks ago17 min
Episode 3: Jennifer McArdle, Helsing U.S. — Invent It Here, Build It Here
CDF Advisory Board Member Susan Buikema-Miller sits down with Dr. Jennifer McArdle, General Manager of Helsing U.S., for a conversation on closing the gap between inventing and building critical defense technologies in America. Chapters - Introduction and Guest Welcome - What is Helsing? Company Overview - Founding Story and Founders - Building Helsing US from Scratch - Scaling Up and West Virginia Investment - Challenges Working with US Government as Foreign-Owned Startup - Stuck in the 1970s: Design vs Production Mindset - Reindustrializing America and Workforce Investment - Wish List: Funding, Mass Production, and Procurement Reform - Why 'Disruptors' Matters in Defense - Leveraging European Manufacturing Know-How - Lessons from Ukraine: Rapid Iteration on the Battlefield - Russian Targeting and Helsing's Mission - Closing Remarks
- 2 weeks ago31 min
Episode 2: Jim Juster, DON Rapid Capabilities Office — Placing the Right Bets
CDF’s Mike MacKay sits down with Jim Juster, Deputy Director of the Department of the Navy Rapid Capabilities Office (DONRCO), for a conversation on how the Navy is getting new capability to the fleet faster. Chapters - Introduction and Navy Rapid Capabilities Office Overview - Origins: Plug and Play and the Dark Typhon Example - Social Engineering and Risk-Taking Across Programs - Structuring Rapid Capability Cells Across the Enterprise - Avoiding Duplication and Managing Experimentation - The New Consortium: Breaking Down Problems and Needs - Capability vs Widget: Defining What's Needed - Sourcing Tech via Prize Challenges and Multiple Vendors - Reducing Industry Risk and Avoiding Bad Behaviors - Intrapreneurs and the Internal Startup Mindset - Year One Results: 38 Bets and Mission Areas - Why This Consortium: Digital Esperanto and Composability - Scaling Industrial Base and Avoiding Single-Vendor Risk - How Industry Should Engage with Don RCO - Dual Use Technology and Closing Thoughts
- May 13, 202617 min
Episode 1: Paul Lemmo, Lockheed Martin — Rethinking the Defense Business Model
CDF Founder and Chairman Rich Carroll sits down with Paul Lemmo, VP and General Manager of Lockheed Martin's Sensors, Effectors and Mission Systems line of business, for a conversation on the business models reshaping defense. Rich and Paul talked about R&D funding, new munitions deals pairing industry capital with multi-year government commitments, and how primes are partnering with non-traditional autonomy companies to scale. Chapters - Richard Carroll on Innovation and National Security - Lockheed Martin's Sensor, Effectors and Mission Systems Division - Defense Budget Officer on Self-Driving Programs - Defense Contracting: Fixed Price vs Cost+ - Lockheed Martin Exploring Unmanned Surface Vehicles and Undersea - Paul Feist on Defending autonomy in the Defense Budget
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