Philip Buckendorf
Co-founder & CEO, Air Space Intelligence. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Philip Buckendorf co-founded Air Space Intelligence in 2018 to develop predictive AI software for optimizing flight paths and air traffic operations. His systems are deployed across commercial airlines and United States defense bodies.
1shows
1appearances
9statements
2resolved
1supported
0contradicted
50%fully supported
Everything Philip Buckendorf said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
China gives port management software to allied nations for free
“Our adversaries are actually trying to deploy their software into allied ports. Like, the Chinese are really good in making sure their software runs in ports. They're giving it away for free, and there's a reason why they do that.”
Aviation staffing and infrastructure bottlenecks are fundamentally software problems
“What is not considered enough is like how staffing and infrastructure are fundamentally actually software problems.”
Legacy defense contractors can no longer attract top software engineering talent
“The companies that historically participated in the space can no longer attract the very best software engineers. Like the very best software engineers do not want to work in that ecosystem and with those structures.”
Recent defense tech modernization prioritized dashboards over software for warfighters
“I think the last five, 10 years, a lot of the modernization that happened was just, like, putting up new dashboards that are running in these operation centers on, like, bigger TVs, but we haven't really deployed software to the warfighter to the operator.”
Buckendorf: Advanced military equipment is useless without effective logistics
“You can build the most advanced equipment. You can produce it at the largest scale possible, but if you can't get it where it's needed, when it's needed, it doesn't exist.”
Buckendorf: Germany exited nuclear energy to rely on Russian gas
“Germany just decided to pull out a nuclear energy to become fully dependent on kind of cheap Russian gas.”
Buckendorf: Air and maritime operation centers were using ancient software
“And the first six months of ASI, we went to operation centers and wanted to understand like, what's the state of software? What's the state of technology? No matter if that is in maritime or in air operation centers. And I would say to some extent we expected …”
Buckendorf: Aviation software must modernize for new workers unfamiliar with green screens
“The generation that has retired or is about to retire, they grew up with IBM green screens. Like, they are familiar on how to use that technology. They used that technology for the last 30 years. But the new generation that is being trained now, they, they're …”
Buckendorf: Software is evolving from data fusion to predictive domain simulation
“I think now we're kind of at the very beginning of a new revolution, which is prediction machines, right? How do we actually build interfaces that are predicting what is about to happen? Like, what is the state of the operating domain? What is the state of our…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Philip's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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