Ep 165: Shyam Sankar on a Defense Reformation

School of War · Dec 17, 2024 · 39m

Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Palantir Technologies, joins the show to explain the broken Defense Department acquisition process and how he believes it can be fixed.

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Times

• 01:24 Introduction

• 01:39 Employee #13

• 03:14 Palantir

• 06:22 Monopsony

• 11:18 Messy and chaotic

• 14:40 Dual purpose companies

• 17:18 The buying process

• 23:50 Pushback

• 25:59 Competing efforts

• 27:37 Heretics and heroes

• 31:22 Thinking about future war

• 35:05 A changing selection criteria

• 36:47 “The future is software defined”

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