Episodes

Mike Pansky, Chief Product Officer at IntelliBridge, sits down with Bonnie Evangelista this week to talk about how to keep up with and scale emerging technology. Mike shares his own journey navigating the challenging landscap...

In this bonus episode, Bonnie Evangelista discusses the inefficiencies in government contracting and how we can leverage the power of AI and LLMs to reduce workflows from 3 months to 30 minutes. She shares insights on definin...

This week, retired Lieutenant General Jack Shanahan, the first director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, joins Bonnie Evangelista to discuss the beginnings and momentum of the JAIC. They explore the challenges and...

Captain Shawn Cooper, XVII Airborne Corps Innovation Officer, joins Bonnie Evangelista this week to talk about how the Corps is building connective tissue to support bottom-up innovation, scale soldier ideas, and integrate th...

This week, Bonnie Evangelista is joined by special guest, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Michael Nagata, former Director of Strategy for the National Counterterrorism Center and retired United States Army veteran with a storied 38-year care...

This week, Bonnie Evangelista sits down with Bill Wilder, NCOIC for XVIII Airborne Corps Data Activities, to talk about the importance of bottoms-up military innovation. They talk about the current pipeline for soldier-orient...

In this episode, Stephanie Wilson, Agreements Officer with the Army Contracting Command (ACC) Rock Island, joins Bonnie Evangelista to explore and demystify the complexities of the contracting process. They talk about how to ...

This week, Bonnie sits down with Vince Pecoraro, Lead Program Manager for the DAF Digital Transformation Office, to explore the concept of speed in government contracting. Vince shares his insights on the need for faster deli...

This week, we break down the defense playbook with Brigadier General Jasper Jeffers III, Deputy Director for Special Operations and Counter-Terrorism. He dives into lessons learned from the infamous Patriots vs. Seahawks Supe...

In this episode of Defense Mavericks, Bonnie is joined by Dr. Dolores Kuchina-Mucina, Chief Disruptor at REXOTA Solutions and an expert in practicing and executing other transaction authorities (OTs). They explore the misconc...

AI Proficiency is now Defense Mavericks! We’re excited to take this show to the next level as we hone in on the untapped potential of AI within the federal government. Join us as we dive into authentic and disruptive conversa...

Join us for another episode of ‘AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today’ to hear an insightful discussion with Krista Kinnard, Director of Innovation and Engineering at U.S. Department of Labor OCIO. Across the department...

Join us for another episode of AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today to hear a conversation with Dr. Ola Olude-Afolabi, AI PM & Visionary at the Office of the Chief Technology Officer in the U.S. Department of Commerce....

On today’s episode of AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today, we are joined by Drew Malloy, Technical Director of the Cyber Development Directorate for the Defense Information Systems Agency. Drew sat down with us to d...

Join us for another episode of AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today to hear a conversation with Jade Baranski, Co-Founder and CEO of Mobilize. Since entering the world of technology, Jade has been inspired by the immen...

Today’s episode of AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today features a discussion with Dr. Dorothy Leidner, Leslie H. Goldberg Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor in AI Ethics at the University of Virgini...

On this episode of AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today, we are joined by Maynard Holliday, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Critical Technologies at the United States Department of Defense. Maynard’s background as a...

Today’s episode of AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today features a conversation with Dr. Charles Clancy, Senior Vice President of MITRE and head of MITRE Labs. As we embark on an era of large language models and genera...

On today’s episode of AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today, we sat down with Paul Scharre, Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security to discuss his work exploring new defense capa...

On today’s episode of AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today, we are joined by Kevin Williamson, Wargame and Subject Matter Expert at Marine Corps University. Training reliable capabilities that can serve as educational ...

Join us for another episode of AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today, to hear an eye-opening discussion with Hilke Schellmann, Journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism at NYU. As a filmmaker, journalist, and res...

On today’s episode of AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today, we are joined by Mallesh Murugesan, Founder & CEO of Abeyon, and Co-Founder of chirrp.ai. Mallesh’s journey into the world of AI through software development ...

Join us for another episode of AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today to hear a conversation with CPT Michael Sass, Mission Manager, DoD-IC Integration, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, U.S. Department ...

On this episode of AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today, we are joined by Mailani Veney, CEO of Kana Systems. Mailani recognizes that change-making requires giving back to your community, and has made that an initiativ...