{"podcast":{"title":"The Defense Tech Podcast with Fexingo: Government Contracting, Aerospace, and Military Tech","slug":"the-defense-tech-podcast-with-fexingo-government-contracting-aerospace-and-military-tech-7871833","podcast_index_feed_id":7871833,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/the-defense-tech-podcast.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-defense-tech-podcast/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":120,"summary":"Defense contracting isn't just F-35s and carrier groups. Lucas and Luna break down the actual economics of military tech: how aerospace primes like Lockheed, RTX, and Northrop Grumman manage multi-year fixed-price development contracts, what the DoD’s new CMMC cybersecurity rules mean for small subcontractors, and why the Navy’s Columbia-class submarine program is a case study in industrial-base risk. Each episode starts with a real number — a contract award value, a quarterly P&L line from a defense prime, a Pentagon budget line item — and builds a conversation around it. Lucas, a former defense correspondent, brings the policy and accounting; Luna, a tech-market analyst, connects the programs to publicly traded supply chains and venture-backed startups trying to break into classified markets. No classified information, no defense-blog speculation — just the business logic behind the weapons systems you read about in the news. Why does a missile cost $4 million? How does a shipbuilder hedge against steel tariffs? And what happens when a startup wins a Small Business Innovation Research grant for a prototype that the Air Force actually wants to buy? This is the business of nationa…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T08:17:05.344517+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-defense-tech-podcast-with-fexingo-government-contracting-aerospace-and-military-tech-7871833"},"episode":{"title":"How the Pentagon Is Buying AI Models Like a SaaS Platform","slug":"how-the-pentagon-is-buying-ai-models-like-a-saas-platform","published_at":"2026-07-12T08:21:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-defense-tech-podcast-with-fexingo-government-contracting-aerospace-and-military-tech-7871833/how-the-pentagon-is-buying-ai-models-like-a-saas-platform","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-defense-tech-podcast-with-fexingo-government-contracting-aerospace-and-military-tech-7871833","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-defense-tech-podcast/episode-0106.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-defense-tech-podcast/episode-0106.mp3","summary":"The Pentagon is shifting from building custom AI models in-house to buying them as managed services — a move that mirrors how enterprises adopted cloud-based software. Lucas and Luna break down the new 'AI as a service' procurement model, using the recent JWCC contract expansions and the emergence of the Pentagon's Chief Digital and AI Office as anchor points. They discuss what this means for traditional defense contractors vs. Silicon Valley, and why AI model procurement is becoming more about data pipelines than algorithms. A focused look at how the Department of Defense is rewriting its AI acquisition playbook. #AIProcurement #Pentagon #MilitaryAI #SaaS #DefenseTech #CDAO #JWCC #ArtificialIntelligence #GovernmentContracting #MachineLearning #DataPipelines #Business #Technology #Podcast #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #DefenseInnovation #AIasAService Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"The Pentagon is shifting from building custom AI models in-house to buying them as managed services — a move that mirrors how enterprises adopted cloud-ba…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":499,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-defense-tech-podcast-with-fexingo-government-contracting-aerospace-and-military-tech-7871833/episodes/how-the-pentagon-is-buying-ai-models-like-a-saas-platform/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-defense-tech-podcast-with-fexingo-government-contracting-aerospace-and-military-tech-7871833/how-the-pentagon-is-buying-ai-models-like-a-saas-platform.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}