Ep. 96: Robert Slaughter, Defense Unicorns

Podcast: Crossing the Valley · Frontdoor Defense

Opublikowano: 2026-10-21

Rob Slaughter’s company exists because of a year and a half of pain. Early in his Air Force career he was handed a gnarly problem. It lived right at the intersection of his physics and computer vision background. Despite knowing how to solve it from a tech perspective, the data and systems he would have needed to stitch together all lived at different classification levels. He spent eighteen months trying to work the policy approvals to connect the tools he needed, but was ultimately unsuccessful. In a tale as old as time, Rob then received orders, an...