DIB Innovators
by RADICL
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About this podcast
The DIB Innovators podcast celebrates the brilliant minds behind innovation within the Defense Industrial Base.
In each episode, host and co-founder of RADICL, David Graff will speak with DIB leaders who are driving technological advancements, championing our nation’s security, and shaping the future of defense technology.
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Episodes
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- EP 127 — Fortastra's Sahil Desai On Why Orbital Warfare Becomes A Quantity Problem And How To Build Space Defense For Scale · 40 minTen of the most capable satellites in the world still could not defend against a large volume of threats. Orbital warfare becomes a quantity problem, and Fortastra is building…
- EP 126 — Catalyx Space's Rifath Shaarook On Why Compliance And Picking The Right Licenses Are The Hardest Part Of Space And Defense · 39 minRifath Shaarook, Co-Founder and CEO of Catalyx Space, says building a satellite is easier than the compliance around it. The hardest part is figuring out which license applies…
- EP 125 — GaardTech's Steen Bisgaard On The Robotic Fighting Echelon Reshaping Land Warfare · 51 minSteen Bisgaard spent over a decade in the Australian Army's Armoured Corps before founding GaardTech to build the combat robots he wished he had in the field. His concept of a…
- EP 124 — Asylon's Damon Henry On How Selling Outcomes Instead Of Robots Changes Defense Acquisition · 36 minAsylon showed up to an Air Force aircraft inspection demo with zero general visual inspection software. While every competitor brought five or six people, Asylon operated a drone…
- EP 123 — Overmatch Ventures' Morgan Hitzig On The Founder Offset And Why America Wins By Playing Its Own Game · 39 minIf 85% of defense M&A exits land below $100 million in enterprise value, why are so many defense tech founders raising at valuations unmoored from the fundamentals? Morgan…
- EP 122 — AEVEX's Manan Patel On The Modular Drone Strategy That Won Army Launched Effects-Short Range (LE-SR) · 41 minManan Patel deployed to Iraq as a civilian engineer and mission commander on airborne ISR platforms, then left the government lab with no business plan to start Special…
- EP 121 — Tidal Flight's Jude Augustine On Building The First Clean Sheet Seaplane In Decades · 36 minSeaplane design hasn't changed since the 1950s. Jude Augustine, Co-Founder and CEO of Tidal Flight, is building Polaris, a hybrid electric amphibious aircraft designed to turn a…
- EP 120 — Crow Industries' James Crowell On Why The U.S. Army Is Betting On Smaller Ground Robots · 38 minJames Crowell is an expert in extreme environment robotics who spent the first decade of his career developing and deploying polar, volcanic, and space systems at NASA, JPL, and…
- EP 119 — Baker Institute's Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes On Why Critical Minerals Are The Weakest Link In Western Defense Supply Chains · 1 h 2 minAshley Zumwalt-Forbes drilled the first unconventional wells in Argentina for ExxonMobil, built a nickel mining company in Western Australia, then served as DOE Deputy Director…
- EP 118 — CisLunar Industries' Gary Calnan On How a Space Furnace Accidentally Created a Power Electronics Company · 36 minGary Calnan, CEO and Co-Founder of CisLunar Industries, built power electronics to melt metal in orbit. A research partner noticed the same hardware could reshape electric…
- EP 117— NODA AI's Phil Duong On Building Mission Command For Autonomous Forces · 45 minPhil 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…
- EP 116 — Carbonix's Dario Valenza On Building 10-Hour Flight Drones That Compete With Helicopters · 39 minHow do you build a drone that flies 10 hours, takes off without a runway, and earns the first beyond visual line of sight certification for its class? Start with a decade of…
- EP 115 — WAR Inc's Jon Williams On Building a Defense Company Backwards, From IP to Factory · 33 minJon Williams took ownership of technical data packs for munitions from 40 millimeter to 1,000 pound bombs. WAR Inc. is building a single facility where raw materials go in one…
- EP 114 — Saronic Technologies' Vibhav Altekar On Building 300 Autonomous Vessels In Two Years For Zero Crew · 50 minWhat happens when you design ships for full autonomy from day one instead of retrofitting crewed vessels? At Saronic Technologies, it meant removing living quarters, plumbing…
- EP 113 — 3Wire Partners' Anita Antenucci On Why 80% Of VC-Backed Defense Suppliers Could Disappear · 39 minAnita Antenucci, Founder and Managing Partner of 3Wire Partners, has spent three decades and roughly five hundred deals watching the defense capital stack evolve. Venture capital…
- EP 112 — Persistent Systems' Jon Patrick On Winning $120M in Tactical Networking Without A Program Of Record · 33 minPersistent Systems won a $120 million tactical networking award without a program of record. Their Wave Relay MANET served as the network backbone during Project Convergence…
- EP 111 — Vision Miner's Rob Lent On 9 Years Of Bootstrapping Accessible High-Temp 3D Printing · 28 minRob Lent, Co-Founder and COO of Vision Miner, has spent nine years making high-performance polymer 3D printing accessible to companies that used to need quarter-million-dollar…
- EP 110 — AdlerAerospace’s Wilhelm Meya On The Broken Math Of Drone Defense · 40 minWilhelm Meya spent his first career building linguistic technology. Then he pivoted into aerospace, founded AdlerAerospace, and started integrating battle-tested Ukrainian and…
- EP 109— Skyways' Isaac Roberts On Mass-Producing Autonomous Cargo Drones For Contested Logistics · 35 minIsaac Roberts spent four years in the Navy, built and sold a computer vision company, co-founded a robotics startup, and then joined Skyways to tackle the missing middle in…
- EP 108 — Clear-Com's Jonathan Sorensen On Building Comms That Run On 5G Infrastructure The DoD Is Already Deploying · 20 minJonathan Sorensen went from working live events at Red Rocks and broadcast engineering for the Colorado Avalanche to solving military communication challenges at Clear-Com. As a…
