{"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 Commercial Tech Like a VC","slug":"how-the-pentagon-is-buying-commercial-tech-like-a-vc","published_at":"2026-06-16T07:57:38+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-commercial-tech-like-a-vc","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-0054.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-defense-tech-podcast/episode-0054.mp3","summary":"Episode 54 of The Defense Tech Podcast. Lucas and Luna examine the Pentagon's new commercial tech investment office, which is adopting venture capital methods to bypass traditional acquisition. They discuss the Strategic Capital Office's first $215 million deployment into AI-powered logistics software, how it differs from traditional contracting, and what it means for defense primes like Lockheed Martin, whose stock sits at $530, and L3Harris at $304. The episode explores the tension between speed and oversight, and why this experiment could reshape how the military buys innovation. #Pentagon #DefenseTech #CommercialTech #VentureCapital #StrategicCapitalOffice #AcquisitionReform #AI #Logistics #LockheedMartin #L3Harris #DefensePrimes #GovernmentContracting #PentagonInnovation #MilitaryTech #Business #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 54 of The Defense Tech Podcast. Lucas and Luna examine the Pentagon's new commercial tech investment office, which is adopting venture capital met…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":604,"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-commercial-tech-like-a-vc/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-commercial-tech-like-a-vc.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}