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Ep 165: Shyam Sankar on a Defense Reformation

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Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Palantir Technologies, joins the show to explain the broken Defense Department acquisition process and how he believes it can be fixed.

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• 01:24 Introduction

• 01:39 Employee #13

• 03:14 Palantir

• 06:22 Monopsony

• 11:18 Messy and chaotic

• 14:40 Dual purpose companies

• 17:18 The buying process

• 23:50 Pushback

• 25:59 Competing efforts

• 27:37 Heretics and heroes

• 31:22 Thinking about future war

• 35:05 A changing selection criteria

• 36:47 “The future is software defined”

Follow along on Instagram or YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast

Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack

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Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Palantir Technologies, joins the show to explain the broken Defense Department acquisition process and how he believes it can be fixed.

▪️

Times

• 01:24 Introduction

• 01:39 Employee #13

• 03:14 Palantir

• 06:22 Monopsony

• 11:18 Messy and chaotic

• 14:40 Dual purpose companies

• 17:18 The buying process

• 23:50 Pushback

• 25:59 Competing efforts

• 27:37 Heretics and heroes

• 31:22 Thinking about future war

• 35:05 A changing selection criteria

• 36:47 “The future is software defined”

Follow along on Instagram or YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast

Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack

  continue reading

210 episodes

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