Gray Matters

🎙️ 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

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44:43

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

🚨EMERGENCY POD🚨

Jul 3 • Maggie Gray and David Rothzeid

4

24:13

June 2026

Where Do Defense Tech Founders Come From?

An Analysis of 100 National Security Startups

Jun 30 • Maggie Gray

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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

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2

1

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

Listen now | 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

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3

🎙️ Ep 22 - Armada: Building American Edge AI Dominance

In the latest episode of the Mission Matters Podcast, Akhil and I sat down with Dan Wright and Pradeep Nair, co-founders of Armada, which is building…

Apr 20 • Maggie Gray and Akhil Iyer

2

50:40

2026 National Security Hackathon | Registration Now Open

$50,000+ in cash prizes! Build technology for real DoW stakeholders! Opportunity for follow on contracts!

Apr 15 • Maggie Gray

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1

March 2026

Beyond SaaS: New Business Models in Defense Tech

Tech-enabled services, M&A driven conglomerates, factory-as-product, holding companies, and more!

Mar 31 • Maggie Gray

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8

🎙️ Ep 21 - Techquisition: SBIR Reauthorization Explained

What the new SBIR reauthorization bill means for startups

Mar 18 • Maggie Gray

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34:09