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Ep 165: Shyam Sankar on a Defense Reformation
Manage episode 455947524 series 2998419
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
210 episodes
Manage episode 455947524 series 2998419
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
210 episodes
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