Booking Overview
Metrics
Episodes: 67
Frequency: Monthly
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000
Gender skew: Male
Listener location: USA
YouTube: 15.2k subscribers
Instagram: 23.0k followers
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Publicly listed emails
news@themerge.co
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Recent Guest Discussions
Jenn Wilson - Military Hardware Test And Evaluation, Test-data Infrastructure, Telemetry, Digital Twins, The Simulation-to-reality Gap, And Defense Software Adoption
Kara Kramer - Gps-free Navigation, Vision-based Navigation, 3d Geospatial Intelligence, Targeting, Electronic Warfare, And Autonomous Systems
Meg Vorland - Pentagon Acquisition, Defense Innovation, Acquisition Reform, Startup Funding, Contracting, And Technology Fielding
Meagan Metzger - Pentagon Acquisition, Defense Innovation, Acquisition Reform, Startup Funding, Contracting, And Technology Fielding
Rob Slaughter - Military Software, Open-source Software, Software Sustainment, Cybersecurity, Air-gapped Systems, And Software As A Weapon System
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Episodes
E62 – Rethinking Aircraft Maintenance with Perfect Point EDM
October 04, 2026
Buying a fighter jet is the cheap part.Mike sits down with Jim Becker, President and CEO of Perfect Point EDM, to talk about the biggest line in any defense program: keeping the fleet flying.Perfect Point builds the E-Drill, which uses electro discharge machining (EDM) to pull aircraft fasteners. Founded in 2005, it turned a lab curiosity into a fielded tool that removes a rivet in about 30 seconds instead of 10 minutes, with no debris and almost no rework.Jim's take is blunt. The aircraft mo...
E61 – Rebuilding the Test Playbook with Nominal
August 30, 2026
Test is where new military hardware goes to wait.Mike sits down with Jenn Wilson, Head of Federal at Nominal, to talk about test and evaluation, the least glamorous gate between a program and the warfighter.Nominal builds test data infrastructure for hardware. Founded in 2022 by Anduril, Palantir, and Lockheed Martin alumni, it reached a $1 billion valuation in March.Jenn’s take is that acceleration comes from optimizing what you test for. Cutting test points is the wrong lever.Topics include...
E60 – GPS-Free Navigation
July 12, 2026
How do systems operate when GPS disappears?Mike sits down with Kara Kramer, Vice President ofRaptor Sales at Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence), to discuss one of the most important challenges facing modern autonomous systems: operating when GPS is jammed, spoofed, or completely unavailable. We discuss vision-based navigation (VBN), 3D geospatialintelligence, and why resilient autonomy depends on more than just the drone itself. From electronic warfare to contested operations, this conversa...
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