Graham Plaster

Jeff Carr with Suits and Spooks

In this episode we discuss AI, ethics of technology, and R&D trends in defense sector. The next Suits and Spooks event in DC is January 25th and will focus on AI, so check it out!

THE AI SUMMIT: CYBERSECURITY AND NATIONAL DEFENSE

25 JANUARY 2019 | THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Bio

Jeff Carr is the founder of the international security forum Suits and Spooks, the organiser of the Securing Mobility Summit at AutoMobility LA / LA Auto Show, a Fellow with the Ponemon Institute, and a Senior Analyst at Wikistrat. He’s the author of “Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld” (O’Reilly Media 2009, 2011) and was the founder and CEO of Taia Global, Inc., a cybersecurity startup that created the world’s first searchable database of strategic R&D projects.  Mr. Carr has performed numerous security consulting engagements for multinational corporations in the defense, telecommunications, and media sectors as well as various agencies of the U.S. government.

Mr. Carr has been a guest lecturer at the U.S. Army War College, the Air Force Institute of Technology, the Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategic Study Group, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Open Source Center, and the Government of India’s National Security Council. He has provided subject matter expertise to the National Commission for the Review of the Research and Intelligence Programs of the United States Intelligence Community and was a technical peer reviewer for the NATO Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations.

He is privileged to have served his country as a Radioman with the U.S. Coast Guard.

Think Wrong with Christopher O'Keefe

Christopher O'Keefe is the COO of Solve Next, Editor In Chief of The Navalist, Co-Founder of O'Keefe Realty, and previously a member of the Chief of Naval Operation's Rapid Innovation Cell.

Chris is an instigator of what he calls "thinking wrong".

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Interview with William Treseder - husband, father, and author of RESET

William Treseder is a cofounder of BMNT, an innovation consultancy headquartered in Silicon Valley.  He is the recent author of "RESET: Building Purpose in the Age of Digital Distraction".  He has educated and mentored thousands of entrepreneurs around the world through partners such as Stanford University, GE, and Singularity University, and has helped governments and large organizations solve hundreds of problems. William is a former U.S. Marine who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He lives with his wife and children in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he loves to share lessons learned with others who are striving to improve themselves and their families.

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Viktor E. Frankl

Jay Harrison - Serial Entrepreneur, Defense Innovation Expert

Jay Harrison is a defense industry entrepreneur and technology innovator and an advocate for military acquisition reform. In 2006 he founded Mav6, a defense technology company recognized by Inc. magazine in 2011, 2012, and 2013 as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in America. In 2016 he was named inaugural director of the MD5 National Security Technology Accelerator, a human capital innovation program within the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Harrison was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Memphis with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1995 and then went on to earn master's degrees from the University of Florida, the Naval War College, and the National Intelligence University. He attended but did not complete the Master of Business Administration program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a Ph.D. candidate at the New York University.

In 2002 Harrison was selected by the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense to lead the Technical Operations Support Activity (TOSA), a secretive military organization created in 2003 chartered with finding and repurposing commercial technologies for sensitive military missions. Harrison arranged for TOSA personnel to be embedded with operational military units in Afghanistan, Iraq, and around the world to observe military and counter-terrorism operations, resulting in a number of revolutionary products delivered to the battlefield in the early phases of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. During Harrison’s tenure, the United States Army awarded Army Greatest Invention recognition to three TOSA programs - the Unattended Transient Acoustic MASINT System (UTAMS) (2004), the Persistent Threat Detection System (2005), and the Constant Hawk aerial surveillance system.

In 2006, Harrison left the military and co-founded Mav6, LLC, where he served as managing director and chief technology officer from 2006-2014. By 2011 Mav6 was earning about $120 million in annual revenues and had won three Inc. 500/5000 awards by creating collaborations between academia, industry, and military organizations. In 2011, Popular Science named one of Harrison's projects, the M1400 airship, as a top innovation of the year, and in 2012 Ernst & Young recognized Harrison as the Entrepreneur of the Year in the Gulf Coast Region.

In 2010, working as an advisor in the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Harrison co-developed a process called "technology domain awareness", which matches new technologies with national security and public safety needs.

In December 2011, Harrison co-founded the Center for Battlefield Innovation, part of the High Performance Computing Collaboratory at Mississippi State University, to provide a focal point for applying university-based research to problems in defense and public safety. In March 2014, Harrison was named the first director of the Center for Smart Defense at the West Virginia University. In 2015 he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at the National Defense University and the John Boyd National Security Research Fellow at New York University.

In 2016, Harrison founded the MD5 National Security Technology Accelerator, a partnership between the United States Department of Defense and several American universities. He has served as the inaugural director since the program’s inception. As part of his work there, he promotes the development of dual-use technology startups that address critical national security issues and has pioneered the use of hackathon and crowdsourcing activities to prototype new military capabilities.

 

Interview with Louis Tucker

Mr. Louis Tucker serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Mission Sync LLC. Mr. Tucker is a Navy SEAL reserve officer, formerly was a CIA Operations Officer and was a Staff Director of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Mr. Louis Tucker serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Invincea, Inc. and Sovereign Intelligence, LLC. As President of the non-profit, Foundation for Innovation and Discovery (FINND), he helps connect government personnel with commercial innovators. Mr. Tucker holds a BA in History from Dartmouth College and an MS in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University.

Interview with Alexia D'Arco

Alexia D’Arco is currently the President of the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. YPFP is a nonpartisan 501(c) organization that engages, builds, and amplifies NextGen voices to advance innovative solutions to global challenges. With thousands of members and weekly events, YPFP is well-known for its strong commitment to public service and its efforts to create dialogue between future foreign policy leaders and today's accomplished experts. In addition to its activities in Washington D.C., YPFP has active branches in New York, London, and Brussels, lending the organization a truly global voice and international perspective. For more information, visit www.ypfp.org

Alexia has over a decade of experience in foreign affairs and international security issues. She was Frontier’s first Hiring our Heroes Fellow and continues to support Frontier as a foreign policy advisor with a particular focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan. Prior to Frontier, Alexia worked as a Program Development Consultant for the TOMODACHI Initiative, a $34 million public-private partnership created by U.S. Embassy Tokyo and the U.S.-Japan Council that develops bilateral youth programs between the United States and Japan. From 2011-2013, she served on State Department political-military affairs teams at Embassy Tokyo and the office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, where her portfolios included security assistance, defense cooperation, counterterrorism, and planning for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear incidents. She received a superior individual honor award and a group honor award for her contributions to the U.S. negotiating strategy to reopen the NATO supply lines in Pakistan.

While pursuing her MA, Alexia worked at The Scowcroft Group, the National War College, and as a teaching assistant for former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. She previously served as Executive Assistant to Fred Kempe, President and CEO of the Atlantic Council and as a Program Assistant at the Berlin-based think tank Atlantik-Brücke. Alexia is a former Fulbright Scholar, and Presidential Management Fellow. She previously served as an Adjunct Lecturer at Temple University (Japan) and Rhodes College. Alexia is currently a Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project and an Adjunct at the University of Memphis. She holds an MA in Security Studies from Georgetown University and is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

 

 

 

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Why the Pentagon Needs More MacGyvers and less Edisons

Frank Prautzsch is the President of Velocity Technology Partners, LLC. He is a 1977 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, and a 1986 graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Over his military career he served in a variety of technical and operational capacities on numerous global missions, and focused his expertise on establishing satellite communications and space as critical military enablers. Upon retirement from the military in 1997, he was granted the Military Legion of Merit.

Mr. Prautzsch joined Hughes Space and Communications and spent approximately 6 years developing military and commercial spacecraft that are in service today. He then joined Raytheon where his technical skills shifted to a roadmap of satellite terminals, advanced networks, advanced disruptive technologies, and renewable energy solutions. Several of his innovations are in use saving lives today.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from USMA, and a Master’s Degree in Command and Control Systems / Space from the Naval Postgraduate School, and certification from the Raytheon Business Leadership program at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, the National Defense Industries Association, the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

The Story Behind the Military Cyber Professionals Association - and big things to come...

In this interview with Joe Billingsly, Founder of the Military Cyber Professionals Association, we discuss the story behind MCPA's great success, current projects and opportunities.

 

The Military Cyber Professionals Association is dedicated to developing the American military cyber profession and investing in our nation's future through STEM education. Our Strategy supports this mission.  MCPA is a charitable nonprofit and always welcomes new strategic partners. 

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TIC Consortium is a mastermind community for entrepreneurs, businessines and innovators solving problems for the federal government, U.S. military, and the Intelligence Community.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DevOps, Space Ops, and Agile Risk Management

In this interview with Daniel Heimerdinger, Owner of Exostrategies, Inc., we discuss the difference between astronaut and cosmonaut training, how to balance agility with risk management, and how to bring innovation into government problem sets ... among other things!

Exostrategies, Inc. is a member of TIC Consortium

Exostrategies is a professional services company that principally serves the federal government. We take our years of experience, technical expertise, and management skills to provide innovative solutions that help our customers achieve their objectives affordably and at measured risk.

Exostrategies provides a comprehensive suite of Integrated Decision Support Services (IDS2) powered by our Architex Decision Support Suite software. Our Enterprise of Enterprises approach optimizes efforts across enterprises to effectively manage agency-level costs and risks and improve budget projections. Our ability to link architectures supports executive-level decisions across multiple enterprises.

TIC Consortium is a mastermind community for entrepreneurs, businessines and innovators solving problems for the federal government, U.S. military, and the Intelligence Community.

What is Hacking for Defense? - a Discussion with Pete Newell

In this podcast I chat with Pete Newell, partner at BMNT and one of the minds behind Hacking for Defense.  We talk about the origins of BMNT, H4D, and steps that entrepreneurs can take to get involved.

 

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H4Di - Hacking for Defense Inc. (H4D-i)

https://www.h4di.org/

 

Hacking 4 Defense Incorporated (H4D-i) is a 501c(3) non-profit organization established to enable powerful approaches to stimulating science and technology invention, disruptive innovation, and entrepreneurship on university and college campuses.

 

 

BMNT

www.bmnt.com/

 

We connect problems with people and technology to provide responsive capabilities in a rapidly changing national security environment.

 

  

MD5 | National Security Technology Accelerator: The heart of ...

https://www.md5.net

 

MD5 is accelerating the dissemination of innovation knowledge and methods throughout the DoD workforce. We are building new communities of innovators to create a novel capacity for national security problem solving. We help generate and increase the number and viability of dual-use ventures that serve the needs of our warfighters.

 

 

Join TIC Consortium — The Intelligence Community Inc.

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TIC Consortium is a network of entrepreneurs and businesses seeking to do business with the U.S. government. Join us and we will get you introduced to other companies to team up, and government leaders so you can pitch innovative solutions. We want you on our team!