The Merge

E5 - Military Tech Spending is Broken

Jan 29, 2023

01:16:49

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Microsoft Is in Talks to Spend $10 Billion More in OpenAI

04:21

Defense Ventures Program Within Shift

02:53

Notums.faa.gov

04:07

Introduction

4min

Defense Is a Tiny Fifteenth of Private Equity

2min

Investing in Southwest Airlines Is a Great Buy

5min

Is Private Equity Investing in Defense Relevant R&D?

4min

How Do We Get Entrepreneurs Interested in Our Intellectual Property?

3min

Defense Ventures Program Within Shift

3min

Should the Department of Defense Get Out of the R and D Business?

4min

Government-Funded R&D

3min

Do You Think the DOD Should Get Out of the R&D Business?

3min

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Jcid

5min

11.

What's the Biggest Piece of the Pie?

3min

12.

Hashtag Bureaucracy Hack - That's a Good One

3min

13.

Do You Know Where to Cut Defense Spending?

5min

14.

Notums.faa.gov

4min

15.

What Are the Elements of a Crime?

4min

16.

What's the Classification of a Document?

3min

17.

Chat GPT - What's Next?

3min

18.

Microsoft Is in Talks to Spend $10 Billion More in OpenAI

4min

19.

Are You Using DocuSend to Send Your Deck to VCs?

4min

20.

Adapt

3min

21.

Chat GPT

4min

Merge Podcast Episode 5: Mike, Jake, and Tim pick apart some op-eds about military spending for research and development spending, innovation, and why the military sucks at getting tech to the warfighter. They also catch up on the news about grounded airplanes with NOTAM crash, ponder the legalisms of having secrets in a garage, and end with a discussion on some AI tools—and a surprise.

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* Op-Ed 1: https://warontherocks.com/2023/01/leveraging-u-s-capital-markets-to-support-the-future-industrial-network/

* Op-Ed 2: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/federal-contracting/why-dod-should-get-out-of-the-r-d-business-mislav-tolusic

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