David McCloskey

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17,234 appearances 72 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 3d ago

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The Rest Is Classified · 195. How Silicon Valley Took Over National Security · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

I'm just kind of... voice-verified

Curious if you could give us, you know, as we fast forward from the 80s and early 90s of these government contracts helping to save jobs. voice-verified

Where are we today in this dynamic between the tech guys and the agencies? voice-verified

Where do you think it's come from? voice-verified

Because, I mean, for a long time, I guess the, you know, the sort of generalization, which I think spoke to something that was true, is that Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs in general wanted very little to do with the national security state. voice-verified

I mean, obviously, there are exceptions, but there was kind of this arm's length gap. voice-verified

perspective. voice-verified

And it feels like the dynamic you're describing is, I mean, in some ways, a return to form of an earlier era of when the Pentagon was playing a significant role in kind of nurturing Silicon Valley. voice-verified

So, I mean, is it a cyclical thing where we're back to where we started? voice-verified

Or yeah, where does this new dynamic come voice-verified

Yeah, I think when we talk about the defense industry, there's a tendency to think about the big primes here. voice-verified

You think about Raytheon, you think about Lockheed. voice-verified

The dynamic you're describing is one where, I mean, that's still true. voice-verified

But now we're sort of, we have to think about... voice-verified

spacex and we have to think about palantir and we have to think about you know microsoft and anthropic and all of these big tech players that are are now involved in the defense ecosystem i mean what do you think this dynamic will do uh to the way that the pentagon or the intelligence community sort of arms itself and prepares for future conflicts like what are they going to be the political implications of this voice-verified

Which is like what we do for Chinese manufacturers. voice-verified

Exactly. voice-verified

Intermediate components. voice-verified

You're like, you're a supply chain risk. voice-verified

Exactly. voice-verified

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