I was pleased to have Colin Carroll join me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss the acquisition of machine learning in the Department of Defense. He is the Director of Government Relations at Applied Intuition, a company that enables autonomous vehicles through simulation development and validation. Before that, Colin had a number of positions including Chief Operating Officer at the JAIC, mission Integration Lead for Project Maven, and 10 years of active service in the Marine Corps.

2:30 -Project Maven started with Bob Work and 10 slides
6:30 - Everyone in the Pentagon's in the fight
10:30 - There's not yet an urgency like in 2009 with MRAP
12:30 - How JAIC operations differed from Project Maven
15:00 - DoD autonomy programs often have zero data
17:00 - How to structure AI/ML programs in DoD
19:00 - The Joint Common Foundations is no more
24:40 - Most DoD's data is owned by industry
27:00 - DoD is buying brittle AI/ML models
29:00 - Competing with GOTS software
31:00 - Separating HW acquisition from SW
37:00 - DoD's $2B AI/ML spending estimate likely high
42:00 - We don't win by reforming SBIR
59:20 - The buzzword of JADC2
1:05:16 - The idea behind Title 10 failed
1:09:50 - Force Design 2030 and the future fight
1:20:10 - How to build a defense team at a tech company

This podcast was produced by Eric Lofgren. You can follow me on Twitter @AcqTalk and find more information at https://AcquisitionTalk.com