Gray Matters

🎙️ Ep 29 - Ent: The AI Cybersecurity Arms Race – Defending at Machine Speed

How cyber defenders can use AI to keep up with hackers

Sep 8 • Maggie Gray and Akhil Iyer

4

56:54

August 2026

🎙️ Ep 28 - The Navy's Chief Talent Officer on Attracting Top Talent

How the Navy can best attract top tech talent

Aug 25 • Maggie Gray and David Rothzeid

4

38:37

Work in Defense Tech 🇺🇸

A new initiative to match talent with national security tech startups

Aug 21 • Maggie Gray

12

1

A Startup’s Guide to Working With Large Corporations

Large corporations and early stage startups need each other.

Aug 11 • Maggie Gray and Pat O'Reilly

14

2

July 2026

🎙️ Ep 27 - Arena Physica: Building Electromagnetic Superintelligence

Electrical and RF engineering are becoming more and more important as more hardware becomes software-defined.

Jul 24 • Maggie Gray, Akhil Iyer, and Pratap Ranade

6

44:43

🎙️ Ep 26 - Techquisition: The Pentagon's New Drone Czar?

🚨EMERGENCY POD🚨

Jul 3 • Maggie Gray and David Rothzeid

5

24:13

June 2026

Where Do Defense Tech Founders Come From?

An Analysis of 100 National Security Startups

Jun 30 • Maggie Gray

27

6

7

🎙️ Ep 25 - UFORCE: Ukraine's First Defense Tech Unicorn

The Magura family of USVs, built by UFORCE, sank 14 Russian warships.

Jun 22 • Maggie Gray

5

4

44:07

🎙️ Ep 24 - Code Metal: Rewriting the Code Behind National Security

Modernizing and optimizing the code behind US national security

Jun 1 • Maggie Gray and Pat O'Reilly

4

1

38:08

May 2026

How I Spend My Time as a NatSec Venture Capitalist

Seeing, Picking, Winning, and Supporting Early Stage Startups Building in National Security

May 29 • Maggie Gray

24

2

1

🎙️ Ep 23 - Techquisition: The $1.5 Trillion Budget Request Explained

Decoding the President’s Budget Request, POM, and J-Books for Defense Tech Startups

May 7 • Maggie Gray and David Rothzeid

5

2

46:25

April 2026

How Startups, AI, and Drones Shaped the Iran War: Lessons from Operation Epic Fury

How the U.S. military is using UAVs, USVs, UUVs, AI, commercial space, and more in Iran

Apr 30 • Maggie Gray

25

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