Gray Matters

🎙️ 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

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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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🎙️ 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

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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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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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🎙️ Ep 21 - Techquisition: SBIR Reauthorization Explained

What the new SBIR reauthorization bill means for startups

Mar 18 • Maggie Gray

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February 2026

🎙️ Ep 19 - Vector Defense: Building American Drone Dominance

Drones are re-defining modern warfare – and the U.S.

Feb 18 • Maggie Gray and David Rothzeid

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How I'm Using AI

Adventures with ChatGPT, Claude Code, Gemini, and more

Feb 17 • Maggie Gray

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🎙️ Ep 18 - Starfish Space: Building Autonomous Satellite Servicing in a Contested Space Domain

Space is a contested domain.

Feb 11 • Maggie Gray and David Rothzeid

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🎙️ Ep 17 - Techquisition: The $839B FY26 Defense Appropriations Explained

What the New Budget Means for Startups

Feb 3 • Maggie Gray and David Rothzeid

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January 2026

🎙️ Ep 16 - Techquisition: The War Department's New AI Strategy and Innovation Ecosystem Reform

Listen now | What does the DoW's new AI strategy and defense innovation ecosystem reforms mean for startups?

Jan 14 • Maggie Gray and David Rothzeid

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🎙️ Ep 15 - Geopolitical Briefing: Venezuela with LTG H.R. McMaster (ret.)

Listen now | This episode of the Mission Matters podcast features a conversation between Shield Capital Managing Partner Philip Bilden and Lt.

Jan 13 • Maggie Gray, Philip Bilden, and H.R. McMaster

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