I was pleased to have Colin Carroll join me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss the acquisition of machine learning in the Department of Defense. He is the Director of Government Relations at Applied Intuition, a company that enables autonomous vehicles through simulation development and validation. Before that, Colin had a number of positions including Chief Operating Officer at the JAIC, mission Integration Lead for Project Maven, and 10 years of active service in the Marine Corps.

2:30 -Project Maven started with Bob Work and 10 slides

6:30 - Everyone in the Pentagon's in the fight

10:30 - There's not yet an urgency like in 2009 with MRAP

12:30 - How JAIC operations differed from Project Maven

15:00 - DoD autonomy programs often have zero data

17:00 - How to structure AI/ML programs in DoD

19:00 - The Joint Common Foundations is no more

24:40 - Most DoD's data is owned by industry

27:00 - DoD is buying brittle AI/ML models

29:00 - Competing with GOTS software

31:00 - Separating HW acquisition from SW

37:00 - DoD's $2B AI/ML spending estimate likely high

42:00 - We don't win by reforming SBIR

59:20 - The buzzword of JADC2

1:05:16 - The idea behind Title 10 failed

1:09:50 - Force Design 2030 and the future fight

1:20:10 - How to build a defense team at a tech company

This podcast was produced by Eric Lofgren. You can follow me on Twitter @AcqTalk and find more information at https://AcquisitionTalk.com