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One Idea, Five Pillars — The Making of Africa's Drone Training Ground (opens the original)
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In this episode of Micro Journeys, host Daniel Marrujo is joined by Sergeant Major Patrick Jeffrey, G7 Exercise Sergeant Major for the Southern European Task Force Africa (SETAF-AF), to discuss the Drone Academy program, which provides soldiers with invaluable hands-on experience. African Lion has presented tons of cool tech, but few have shone as brightly as the drones. This conversation digs into how the Drone Academy helps bring it all to life. Sgt. Maj. Jeffrey explains that the program was
Enemy or Friend? Training Soldiers Against Robots That Rush, Scream, and Resurrect (opens the original)
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In this episode of Micro Journeys, host Daniel Marrujo gets a close-up look at Marathon's autonomous robotic targets. Joined by Nate Whelan, Vice President, Europe, Marathon Targets GmbH, he walks through the entire lineup, learning about the robot's build and how it works on the battlefield. These aren’t your basic bucket of bolts. These live-fire training robots talk, move, and behave just like a real adversary. And that realism is meant to translate directly into lethality for the soldiers tr
Bringing Them Home: Inside the Recovery Missions of Brig. Gen. John Lloyd (opens the original)
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In this episode of Micro Journeys, host Daniel Marrujo sits down with Brigadier General John Lloyd for a thrilling discussion about his 40-year Army career. It begins in Lockport, New York, where 17-year-old Lloyd contacts an Army recruiter unbeknownst to his parents. At the time, he had no idea how impactful that one call would become. The conversation opens with Lloyd detailing the path that led him from private to general. From basic training to a Cold War assignment in Germany and Desert Sto
Seeing Everything, Missing Nothing: AI-Powered Mapping of Unmapped Terrain (opens the original)
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In this episode of Micro Journeys Inside Access, host Daniel Marrujo sits down with Lau Nørgaard, CTO of Sapient Perception, at African Lion 2026 to explore how the company's large-area UAV ISR camera payloads are transforming how the U.S. and its allies map and understand unfamiliar terrain across the African continent. The conversation walks through how Sapient Perception's technology captures massive, high-resolution imagery and processes it in real time, directly inside the drone, to deliver
Building an Unhackable Internet, One Photon at a Time (opens the original)
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Daniel Marrujo returns to Brookhaven National Laboratory for the second day of a two-day Micro Journeys deep dive, this time heading into the lab's quantum networking facility with a panel of the world's leading experts in the field. Associate Laboratory Director Gabriella Carini, staff scientists Soumyajit Mandal, Julián Martínez-Rincón & Paul Stankus, and research scientists Sven Herrman & Prashansa Mukim walk through Brookhaven's real-world quantum network test bed, a 161-mile system with fiv
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