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Shyam Sankar

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

They're going to be that level of proficiency you're going to need for a set of technical capabilities that are going to be decisive on the battle space. It's going to extend to electronic warfare and cyber attacks and space-based access and communication. all the way to the end lethal effects.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

They're going to be that level of proficiency you're going to need for a set of technical capabilities that are going to be decisive on the battle space. It's going to extend to electronic warfare and cyber attacks and space-based access and communication. all the way to the end lethal effects.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

They're going to be that level of proficiency you're going to need for a set of technical capabilities that are going to be decisive on the battle space. It's going to extend to electronic warfare and cyber attacks and space-based access and communication. all the way to the end lethal effects.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

I do think we're going to have to invest in, and this is where you need the outside tech mentality in kind of an Apple-like experience here. You know, yesterday when I was at Bragg, part of this capability exercise that General Praga put on talking to the different MOSs, you know, the special ops medic was like, my job is the best job. You know, the weapons officer, my job is the best job.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

I do think we're going to have to invest in, and this is where you need the outside tech mentality in kind of an Apple-like experience here. You know, yesterday when I was at Bragg, part of this capability exercise that General Praga put on talking to the different MOSs, you know, the special ops medic was like, my job is the best job. You know, the weapons officer, my job is the best job.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

I do think we're going to have to invest in, and this is where you need the outside tech mentality in kind of an Apple-like experience here. You know, yesterday when I was at Bragg, part of this capability exercise that General Praga put on talking to the different MOSs, you know, the special ops medic was like, my job is the best job. You know, the weapons officer, my job is the best job.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

Well, the commo guy was like, my job is the worst job. When everything works, no one even knows I'm around, and the second things stop working, you know, it's all my fault. And what I saw in that was cognitive burden. Basically, like, we... How often does your internet go down at home? How often do you have to think about these things? The amount of investment, your iPhone just kind of works.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

Well, the commo guy was like, my job is the worst job. When everything works, no one even knows I'm around, and the second things stop working, you know, it's all my fault. And what I saw in that was cognitive burden. Basically, like, we... How often does your internet go down at home? How often do you have to think about these things? The amount of investment, your iPhone just kind of works.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

Well, the commo guy was like, my job is the worst job. When everything works, no one even knows I'm around, and the second things stop working, you know, it's all my fault. And what I saw in that was cognitive burden. Basically, like, we... How often does your internet go down at home? How often do you have to think about these things? The amount of investment, your iPhone just kind of works.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

And we are doing a great disservice to these commo officers or NCOs by the burden we place on them to have to manage these things versus what our technology could actually be doing. So we have to redraw that front line so they can actually focus on the decisions that make the beer taste better, so to speak. The decisions that actually matter on the battle space.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

And we are doing a great disservice to these commo officers or NCOs by the burden we place on them to have to manage these things versus what our technology could actually be doing. So we have to redraw that front line so they can actually focus on the decisions that make the beer taste better, so to speak. The decisions that actually matter on the battle space.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

And we are doing a great disservice to these commo officers or NCOs by the burden we place on them to have to manage these things versus what our technology could actually be doing. So we have to redraw that front line so they can actually focus on the decisions that make the beer taste better, so to speak. The decisions that actually matter on the battle space.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

as opposed to the things that set the conditions so that you can even think about those things.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

as opposed to the things that set the conditions so that you can even think about those things.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

as opposed to the things that set the conditions so that you can even think about those things.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

I think there's no doubt that a meaningful portion is. The question is, how do you know what that portion is? And I think there's a fair amount of good debate that needs to happen about that. Let's take the tank. Some people think the tank's obsolete. I'm not so sure the tank's obsolete. Maybe it's obsolete on the first island chain.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

I think there's no doubt that a meaningful portion is. The question is, how do you know what that portion is? And I think there's a fair amount of good debate that needs to happen about that. Let's take the tank. Some people think the tank's obsolete. I'm not so sure the tank's obsolete. Maybe it's obsolete on the first island chain.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

I think there's no doubt that a meaningful portion is. The question is, how do you know what that portion is? And I think there's a fair amount of good debate that needs to happen about that. Let's take the tank. Some people think the tank's obsolete. I'm not so sure the tank's obsolete. Maybe it's obsolete on the first island chain.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

There's a question of, what are the conditions around which you need these things? And how would you reinvent the hardware to make it relevant? I view that as a productive competitive stimulus. Everyone who owns this platform should be thinking about, why is my platform still relevant?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

There's a question of, what are the conditions around which you need these things? And how would you reinvent the hardware to make it relevant? I view that as a productive competitive stimulus. Everyone who owns this platform should be thinking about, why is my platform still relevant?