EP 117— NODA AI's Phil Duong On Building Mission Command For Autonomous Forces

Phil Duong, CEO and Co-Founder of NODA AI, is building the mission command layer for autonomous forces that nobody else is focused on. His company orchestrates multi-vendor platforms into coordinated effects the way a JTAC pairs aircraft with targets.A Marine Corps naval aviator and JTAC turned defense tech founder, Phil earned NODA AI a $100 million Department of War award to scale mission command for autonomous forces after years refining a thesis on software-defined effects.Topics discussed:- Building a mission command orchestrator for multi-vendor autonomous forces- Flying drones point to point as table stakes- Software-defined effects and working backward from desired end states- Adaptive recomposition when assets go down mid-mission- Operating autonomous systems in disconnected, denied environments- Navigating the triad of warfighter, Pentagon, and Capitol Hill- Why software will overtake hardware in future conflict- Finding investors who truly back founders at the earliest stageListen to more episodes: Apple Spotify YouTubeWebsite