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Startups 🤝 DoD (Special Guest Lt. Gen. Clint Hinote) – The Hermeus Podcast 19
Lieutenant General Clint Hinote's 35-year career in the Air Force has taken him from inside the cockpit of an F-117 to inside the Pentagon. He has most recently been focused on how to best leverage innovative technology to fortify national security. Freshly retired, we were honored to have him join us for a chat about how startups and the Department of Defense can better work together.
00:51 – Lt. Gen. Clint “Q” Hinote introduction
09:14 – The Future Force
17:11 – What startups wanting to work with the DoD should know
27:23 – Relationship with Venture Capital, entrepreneurs, and the DoD
29:27 – How can the DoD signal to Venture Capital what they need?
38:25 – aligning timelines between the startup, the VCs, and the customer
41:27 – Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution
44:33 – The Defense Department is not a market, it’s a customer
47:37 – Building relationships and trust while working with the government
50:12 – Learning, iterating, risk-taking
54:55 – NASA getting contracting right with COTS program
01:07:18 – Balancing what we’re asking the military to do now and what we’re asking them to do in the future
01:11:07 – “Purple thinking”: branches of the military working together
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Lieutenant General Clint Hinote's 35-year career in the Air Force has taken him from inside the cockpit of an F-117 to inside the Pentagon. He has most recently been focused on how to best leverage innovative technology to fortify national security. Freshly retired, we were honored to have him join us for a chat about how startups and the Department of Defense can better work together.
00:51 – Lt. Gen. Clint “Q” Hinote introduction
09:14 – The Future Force
17:11 – What startups wanting to work with the DoD should know
27:23 – Relationship with Venture Capital, entrepreneurs, and the DoD
29:27 – How can the DoD signal to Venture Capital what they need?
38:25 – aligning timelines between the startup, the VCs, and the customer
41:27 – Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution
44:33 – The Defense Department is not a market, it’s a customer
47:37 – Building relationships and trust while working with the government
50:12 – Learning, iterating, risk-taking
54:55 – NASA getting contracting right with COTS program
01:07:18 – Balancing what we’re asking the military to do now and what we’re asking them to do in the future
01:11:07 – “Purple thinking”: branches of the military working together
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