Ep25 Breaking into the Federal Defense Sector with Emerging Technology

Welcome to today’s episode, where we discuss emerging technologies in the federal defense space – and how those coming from the commercial world can break into this exciting space.In this episode you’ll hear from Natalie Barrett and Jazmin Furtado. Natalie is currently assigned to the Warfighter Health and Readiness Program at Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory. Jazmin is part of the software innovation realm for the Department of Defense where she has overseen large-scale Data and AI programs in the Air Force and Space Force.They discuss:

• The tech problems that are top of mind in the federal defense sector.
• How innovative tech is being injected into the defense space.
• The role that commercial plays in the defense space – how commercial companies can break into this space (and how individual can too)

SOF Conference - https://www.sofweek.org/

Links to discussed Organizations

Vespere - https://www.vespere.org/

Beyond Rhetoric - https://beyondrhetoric.org/

SOCOM - https://www.socom.mil/

DARPA - https://www.darpa.mil/

IARPA - https://www.iarpa.gov/

Kessel Run - https://kesselrun.af.mil/

In-Q-Tel - https://www.iqt.org/

National Science Foundation - https://www.nsf.gov/

AFWERX - https://www.afwerx.af.mil/