{"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":"The Pentagon's Undersea Cable Defense Plan","slug":"the-pentagon-s-undersea-cable-defense-plan","published_at":"2026-06-11T08:06:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-defense-tech-podcast-with-fexingo-government-contracting-aerospace-and-military-tech-7871833/the-pentagon-s-undersea-cable-defense-plan","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-0044.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-defense-tech-podcast/episode-0044.mp3","summary":"Episode 44 of The Defense Tech Podcast examines the Pentagon's growing concern over deep-sea communication cables—the physical fiber-optic lines that carry 95 percent of global data traffic. Lucas and Luna discuss a recent Defense Department pilot program to harden key undersea cable landing points against sabotage, drawing on a classified 2025 Navy assessment that identified 14 critical chokepoints worldwide. They explore the technology behind armored repeaters and dynamic rerouting systems being tested by L3Harris and a small startup called OceanIQ, plus the $1.2 billion budget request for the Cable Security Initiative in the fiscal year 2027 defense bill. Tied to today's headlines about escalating tensions in the Middle East, the episode asks whether the military's 20th-century approach to protecting seabed infrastructure can keep pace with 21st-century threats. This is a deep dive into the physical layer of information warfare. #UnderseaCables #Pentagon #DefenseTech #CriticalInfrastructure #CyberWarfare #L3Harris #OceanIQ #CableSecurity #DeepSea #Navy #InformationWarfare #SupplyChain #Business #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #MilitaryTech #InfrastructureProtection Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 44 of The Defense Tech Podcast examines the Pentagon's growing concern over deep-sea communication cables—the physical fiber-optic lines that carr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":568,"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/the-pentagon-s-undersea-cable-defense-plan/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/the-pentagon-s-undersea-cable-defense-plan.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}