Navigating Defense-Tech Innovations

Former CIA officer and three-term Congressman Will Hurd joins Eric Newcomer, Tom Dotan, and Madeline Renbarger to break down Washington's defense tech boom and tackle the burning question: Is this all just hype? Hurd explains how Ukraine has changed the face of warfare and opened the door for new companies to break into the fold. However, it's one thing to build a prototype, but it's another to actually earn recurring revenue.We discuss how to really sell to the Pentagon, LA's role as a hub for the new defense tech wave, and Hurd's own Chaos Industries and their modular counter-drone systems.

00:00 — Meet Will Hurd from CIA to Congress to Chaos
06:00 — How Hurd would solve partisan redistricting
13:24 — The defense-tech moment
24:20 — Air superiority isn’t dead
36:32— How to sell to DoD