HeyJaredAll Quiet on the Second Front
If Between Two Ferns and C-SPAN had a child, it would be All Quiet on the Second Front. Blending the very best (and the worst) of government gravitas with technical expertise, Second Front’s Chief Executive Officer, Tyler Sweatt, cuts through the noise and the bureaucratic BS…
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127. AI and the Battle for the Mind with Wasim Khaled, Co-Founder & CEO of Blackbird.AI (opens the original)
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In 2020, telling people that organized actors were using bots to shape what the public believes got you called a conspiracy theorist. The one audience that didn't need convincing was the national security community, which had been thinking about the battle for perception long before it had a commercial market. Now, the problem has a name — cognitive warfare — and it has changed shape. The target is no longer the information environment. It is cognition itself, and AI has collapsed the cost of at
126. The Mission Shouldn’t Run on Luck with Bill Pessin, SVP of Missionforce at Salesforce (opens the original)
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Twenty years ago, a young logistics lieutenant solved an impossible field problem with a Franklin Planner, a satellite phone, and a contact who happened to be at his desk. It worked — but it ran on luck. Bill Pessin has spent his career since making sure the mission never has to. He joins Tyler Sweatt to trace the line from Army logistics to leading Salesforce’s Missionforce, and why acceleration, not just speed, is the point.
125. Signal, Grit, and the Veteran Transition Trap with Kyle Eberly, Wyatt Frasier, and Max Cormier from Sitreps (opens the original)
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Every veteran gets the same advice on the way out: "your service will speak for itself." It won't. In this episode, Tyler Sweatt sits down with Kyle Eberly, Wyatt Frasier, and Max Cormier, the leadership team behind Sitreps — the recruiting firm that's become the go-to clearinghouse for veteran talent in defense tech and private equity — to give it to transitioning service members straight.
124. Defense Acquisition Speed and the Cost-Per-Effect Problem with Church Hutton, AV (opens the original)
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A foreign partner's payment has sat in a U.S. government account for nearly a year. The order still hasn't shipped. It's stuck in contracting. That kind of friction is exactly what Church Hutton, Chief Growth Officer at AeroVironment, has spent his career navigating: from Senate Armed Services and Appropriations staff, to Army Reserve officer, to leading growth at a company that just doubled in size by acquiring Blue Halo.
123. Fast Planes Fast: Hermeus's CEO Zach Shore on Owning the Outcome (opens the original)
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Most defense tech CROs spend their whole career optimizing for one thing: hit the number. Hermeus's newly appointed CEO Zach Shore joins Tyler Sweatt to talk about what breaks when that's no longer the job, and what it actually means to own a company's outcome instead of just its revenue. They cover: Why the CEO seat is "the most low ego seat you've ever held," and how confidence and humility have to coexist when your job shifts from hitting a quota to covering for a team's weaknesses The real d
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