The Ledger, every show
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Emil Michael: The United States Currently Has 250 Medicines in Shortage
“We have 250 medicines on shortage in the United States.”
Every DARPA employee has their exit date on their badge
“So everyone at DARPA walks around with their exit date on their badge.”
Michael: Pentagon Counter-UAS task force is developing lasers and electronic warfare
“We have a counter UAS, counter unmanned systems task force that's looking at everything from lasers, directed energy, which is one of my critical priority areas, to how do you do electronic warfare on these things to take them down.”
Emil Michael: AI model upgrade cycles have compressed to three months
“How many, the upgrade cycles for these things are now compressing to now three-ish months. So every three months you have a new set of model weights, a new set of guardrails, a new set of bugs in the way the model behaves, the way it hallucinates or doesn't ha…”
Michael: US defense contractors consolidated from 50 in 1980s to five
“So, so in the eighties, during the height of the cold war, we had about 50 defense contractors, five zero, and they consolidated down to five.”
Michael: DIU will increase focus on defense startups after Saronic success
“DIU's had some good success with Saronic and a bunch of other companies, and now it's, you know, we have, now it's time to do more of it, so it's more of a focus.”
Michael: Directed energy intercepts are far cheaper than missile defense against drones
“And now with all the drone warfare you see, it's much cheaper to take out drones with an energy zap Than it is to send a missile at another, at a drone, right? A five million dollar missile at a 50,000 dollar drone or something.”
Michael: US defense contractors consolidated from 50 in the 1980s to five
“In the eighties, there were 50 defense contractors, and they were, got merged, so there were only about five. Now.”
Michael: DoD Completed Five Critical Minerals Deals in Four to Five Months
“And in the last, I don't know, four or five months, we've done five critical minerals deals, like really fast.”
Michael: United States Has 250 Medicines in Active Supply Shortages
“We have 250 medicines on shortage in the United States.”
Michael: DARPA employees are term-limited and carry exit dates on badges
“They're, and they're term limited. So everyone at DARPA walks around with their exit date on their badge.”
JPMorgan Chase will back loans from Pentagon Office of Strategic Capital
“And, you know, J.P. Morgan announced that they're gonna sort of back a lot, you know, a bunch of the Office of Strategic Capital Loans.”
Michael: Biomanufacturing will enable rare earth separation and synthetic blood
“You could use biological mechanisms to separate rare earth metals? So instead of mining them out of the ground and doing this, like, nasty refining process you could, we use biology to do that You could. Use biology to create synthetic blood. You could can use…”
Michael names Planet Labs, Neros, and Hadrian as top emerging defense companies
“So, I'm excited about everything from Planet Labs that does commercial satellite imagery, to Neros, the drone company, to Hadrian that's doing AI manufacturing.”
Tellme Networks raised $150M across four rounds in 12 months
“We started telling me in 1999. So if you think about the timing of that, we were unbeknownst to us, 18 months from the world coming to an end from a technology investing standpoint. So we had done the things four rounds in one in 12 months. Raised a hundred an…”