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Shyam Sankar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

You know, division, big army formation. But using the latest technology, just like this, they were able to get their division footprint down to 26 people. So instead of the normal 400-plus people you need, a big jock, big screens, which means the enemy can see you, you're pretty immobile, you're not going to be survivable, you're going to be blown to smithereens.

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

You know, division, big army formation. But using the latest technology, just like this, they were able to get their division footprint down to 26 people. So instead of the normal 400-plus people you need, a big jock, big screens, which means the enemy can see you, you're pretty immobile, you're not going to be survivable, you're going to be blown to smithereens.

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

You know, division, big army formation. But using the latest technology, just like this, they were able to get their division footprint down to 26 people. So instead of the normal 400-plus people you need, a big jock, big screens, which means the enemy can see you, you're pretty immobile, you're not going to be survivable, you're going to be blown to smithereens.

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

26 people, the red team could not find them in the desert.

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

26 people, the red team could not find them in the desert.

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

26 people, the red team could not find them in the desert.

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

Well, you definitely want first contact to be made by... entities that have no blood in their system, right? Like the front line of troops, but there's also the front line of robots, and that should be further front. And we need to be thinking about how we have less risk to force as a consequence and have, you know, improved mission outcomes by doing this.

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

Well, you definitely want first contact to be made by... entities that have no blood in their system, right? Like the front line of troops, but there's also the front line of robots, and that should be further front. And we need to be thinking about how we have less risk to force as a consequence and have, you know, improved mission outcomes by doing this.

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

Well, you definitely want first contact to be made by... entities that have no blood in their system, right? Like the front line of troops, but there's also the front line of robots, and that should be further front. And we need to be thinking about how we have less risk to force as a consequence and have, you know, improved mission outcomes by doing this.

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

I do think, though, that the tail is where the immense opportunity is. So the tail here, so yes, it's going to make the tooth sharper, and you're going to need fewer teeth. But the tail... is enormous. You have more people in the Acquisition Corps than you do in the Marine Corps. And the human processes that we use to support all of this is both very latent and slow.

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

I do think, though, that the tail is where the immense opportunity is. So the tail here, so yes, it's going to make the tooth sharper, and you're going to need fewer teeth. But the tail... is enormous. You have more people in the Acquisition Corps than you do in the Marine Corps. And the human processes that we use to support all of this is both very latent and slow.

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

I do think, though, that the tail is where the immense opportunity is. So the tail here, so yes, it's going to make the tooth sharper, and you're going to need fewer teeth. But the tail... is enormous. You have more people in the Acquisition Corps than you do in the Marine Corps. And the human processes that we use to support all of this is both very latent and slow.

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

It obfuscates indirectly just because humans are touching and massaging the data, like what's actually going on. And we need to integrate that. When I think about the most important missing strategic asset to the US government from a deterrence perspective, it is an integrated view from the factory floor to the foxhole.

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

It obfuscates indirectly just because humans are touching and massaging the data, like what's actually going on. And we need to integrate that. When I think about the most important missing strategic asset to the US government from a deterrence perspective, it is an integrated view from the factory floor to the foxhole.

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

It obfuscates indirectly just because humans are touching and massaging the data, like what's actually going on. And we need to integrate that. When I think about the most important missing strategic asset to the US government from a deterrence perspective, it is an integrated view from the factory floor to the foxhole.

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

And by that, I really mean, let's articulate the threats we care about under the timelines. These are the foxhole scenarios that matter to us. This is the national defense strategy. This is who we're trying to deter and when. And work that backwards to, based on what I'm spending and building, does any of that stuff matter? Will it be there in time?

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

And by that, I really mean, let's articulate the threats we care about under the timelines. These are the foxhole scenarios that matter to us. This is the national defense strategy. This is who we're trying to deter and when. And work that backwards to, based on what I'm spending and building, does any of that stuff matter? Will it be there in time?

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

And by that, I really mean, let's articulate the threats we care about under the timelines. These are the foxhole scenarios that matter to us. This is the national defense strategy. This is who we're trying to deter and when. And work that backwards to, based on what I'm spending and building, does any of that stuff matter? Will it be there in time?

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

And I think the Department of Defense is the only institution I know of that has divided up supply and demand. The process of integrating supply and demand is usually the beating heart of a commercial company. This sales and operation planning process, people have different names for it. In the department, we ask the services to go build things. That's the supply side.

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

And I think the Department of Defense is the only institution I know of that has divided up supply and demand. The process of integrating supply and demand is usually the beating heart of a commercial company. This sales and operation planning process, people have different names for it. In the department, we ask the services to go build things. That's the supply side.