How AI/ML margins differ from traditional software
Here’s a good segment from the a16z podcast discussing how AI/ML companies are different than traditional software in terms of margins. Ultimately, what matters most […]
artificial intelligence
Upcoming acquisition events to join!
A couple upcoming events to be aware of, hope to see you there! Acquisition Next: Artificial Intelligence Symposium May 5, 8:30pm – 2:30pm ET In […]
Podcast: What’s the price of an AI/ML product?
As firms are finding out, the unit economics of AI/ML is not exactly like software. It requires more manual manipulation of data than one might […]
AI/ML business models
If you’re building just the infrastructure, just the tooling and the nuts and bolts, you look like a software company and somebody else deals with […]
Is AI/ML data too unique for the DoD to stick into one centralized data repository?
Not only is the data dirty, but it’s unique. The satellite derived data that NGA [National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency] is using is, while it might […]
How to accelerate artificial intelligence in the Defense Department
… the Defense Department needs a common platform for AI development and application. A development platform will bring data, AI developers, and the military into […]
Palantir’s Stephen Cohen on AI and big data in the 21st century
Potentially in quantum computing there are some answers to why classical computational algorithms might not be able to get certain human reasoning tasks done. Nonetheless, […]
Podcast: The future of Navy software development with Lt. Sean Lavelle
I was pleased to speak with Navy Lieutenant Sean Lavelle on the Acquisition Talk podcast. He is the founder and lead of the iLoc development […]
Podcast: Leaping the valley of death with Matt Steckman
Matt Steckman joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss about a wide range of issues facing growth-stage companies in the defense industry. He […]
What’s the rush with the JEDI defense cloud contract?
While the Pentagon’s long-awaited colossal cloud-computing deal has sparked fierce competition between tech giants Amazon and Microsoft, the Defense Department is keeping a keen eye on China’s […]
AI exposes challenges to cost estimation
Many people have written about how artificial intelligence can improve the business of cost estimating. However, those papers tend to focus on costing out industrial […]
Rapidly accelerating Chinese weapons tech
China has become a global space power after decades of investment. According to the 2015 U.S. DoD Annual Report to Congress, China’s progress in the […]
Sunday Links
Army acquisition chief answers questions, seems involved in day-to-day program decisions. Map showing where the US military operates across the world. Interesting. … in a recent […]
Sunday Links
“We are going to invert that approach and take a clean sheet of paper and write the absolute bare minimum to be compliant in 5000.02, […]
Single- vs. Multi-Function Systems
Here is Navy Matters on single vs. multi function system design: So many people want to cram every capability they can think of onto every […]