{"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":"Inside the Pentagon's Cyber Workforce Crisis","slug":"inside-the-pentagon-s-cyber-workforce-crisis","published_at":"2026-06-13T07:49:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-defense-tech-podcast-with-fexingo-government-contracting-aerospace-and-military-tech-7871833/inside-the-pentagon-s-cyber-workforce-crisis","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-0048.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-defense-tech-podcast/episode-0048.mp3","summary":"Episode 48 of The Defense Tech Podcast examines the U.S. military's critical shortage of cyber talent, with 3,000 unfilled positions at U.S. Cyber Command alone. Lucas and Luna break down why traditional hiring models fail, how the Pentagon is experimenting with paid apprenticeship pipelines and coding bootcamps, and what this means for national security. They also look at the broader defense contractor landscape, with recent stock moves for LMT, RTX, and NOC providing context. The conversation highlights the cultural and bureaucratic hurdles that make cyber recruitment uniquely difficult, and whether new initiatives can close the gap before adversaries exploit it. #Pentagon #CyberWorkforce #USCyberCommand #NationalSecurity #CyberTalent #DefenseTech #HiringCrisis #GovernmentContracting #LMT #RTX #NOC #MilitaryTech #Cybersecurity #Apprenticeship #BusinessPodcast #Fexingo #FexingoBusiness #Defense Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 48 of The Defense Tech Podcast examines the U.S. military's critical shortage of cyber talent, with 3,000 unfilled positions at U.S. Cyber Command…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":504,"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/inside-the-pentagon-s-cyber-workforce-crisis/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/inside-the-pentagon-s-cyber-workforce-crisis.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}