Defense Unicorns co-founder and CEO Rob Slaughter joined the MTS Podcast to discuss why delivering software to the U.S. military remains so difficult, and why mastering it is essential to national security. Drawing on his Air Force experience, Rob explains how secure, open-source infrastructure can bring mission-critical software and AI into classified, air-gapped, and edge environments. He also explores balancing speed with security, preparing for increasingly autonomous military systems, and realizing Defense Unicorns’ ambitious vision: enabling every U.S. military asset to receive software updates on demand.
This Air Force Veteran’s $1 Billion Startup Wants To Fix The Military’s Software Bottleneck
When military jets needed an urgent software update, a technician flew from base to base to install it before pilots headed into combat. He couldn’t […]
