HeyJaredMission Matters Podcast
The Mission Matters podcast from Shield Capital explores the intersection of technology, national security, and startups through in-depth conversations with early-stage founders and government technologists.
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- Sep 28, 2026
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Techquisition: How DIU’s Bridge Is Accelerating Commercial Technology Into the Military (opens the original)
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Commercial tech that works can still take years to reach the warfighter. The bottleneck usually isn't the technology. It's everything in between. Sarah Pearson, Director of Strategy at the Defense Innovation Unit, joins us to break down The Bridge, DIU's initiative to systematically tear down the barriers that stall commercial capabilities inside the department. Drawing on lessons from 600+ prototypes, she walks through the three big ones: getting companies cleared and into classified space, fix
Ent Security: The AI Cybersecurity Arms Race – Defending at Machine Speed (opens the original)
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Cyber offense is moving to machine speed, and human-speed defense can't keep up. In this episode of the Mission Matters podcast, we sit down with Lou Manousos, co-founder and CEO of Ent Security, to talk about defending at machine speed in the age of AI. Ent is building intent-aware cybersecurity: edge-deployed AI agents that run at the operating system layer to detect and prevent attacks in real time, with full context of a user's normal behavior. Founded in 2025, Ent has raised more than $100
The Navy's Chief Talent Officer on Attracting Top Talent (opens the original)
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Ben Kohlmann is the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, the chief talent officer for a workforce of more than a million people. A former F-18 carrier pilot who went on to work in venture capital and run a hard-tech startup, he now oversees recruiting, retention, and readiness across the Department of the Navy. Maggie Gray and David Rothzeid talk with him about moving the Navy's personnel system out of the industrial age, bringing commercial tech talent into uniform
Arena Physica: Building Electromagnetic Superintelligence (opens the original)
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Language models aren't the only path to intelligence. For physics, the primitive is fields.In this episode of the Mission Matters Podcast, Maggie Gray and Akhil Iyer sit down with Pratap Ranade, CEO & Co-Founder of Arena Physica, to discuss how he and his team are building electromagnetic superintelligence. Pratap breaks down Atlas, an agentic platform that pairs non-deterministic AI agents with deterministic physics and simulation models, and Heaviside, the first foundation model for RF design,
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