#111 Forrest Underwood | Former AFSOC Pilot | Defense Innovation, A.I., and the Defense Industry

The Afterburn Podcast

John "Rain" Waters

Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

5 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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A paradigm shift is happening in the defense industry with the integration of AI. AI has the potential to provide significant benefits to the warfighter. In episode 111 of @AfterburnPodcast Mike "Flash" McVay and guest Forrest Underwood dive into the world of defense, technology, innovation, business, and how they interact in today's world.

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0:00.0	Afterburn Podcast Podcast is a proud supporter of Guns Gerem Memorial Foundation, helping
0:03.7	our veterans and their families when they need it most.
0:06.6	To learn more, visit Guns Geren.com slash Rain.
0:10.5	I'd submit that there is a paradigm shift that's happening where you have folks who were seriously considering what it might be like to go fight with AI and before that had been kind of a science experiment.
0:25.0	Greatest benefit of AI to the war fighter is it is it truly a CCA like an
0:31.1	actual like an F-35 with no pilot that thinks on its own or is it data collection
0:36.1	and processing or something like that like where do we live like on AI is like the biggest
0:42.0	capability or greatest contributor of a capability to the
0:45.2	DOD if you've seen one so far?
0:47.2	I became a big LinkedIn guy when I was getting out of special operations and they said, hey, you know, we are quiet professionals,
0:55.1	but we're not silent professionals.
0:57.4	And when you get out, you're entering a world where there's a lot of noise.
1:02.2	So your job is not to add to the volume, your job is to create signal. All right everybody welcome to another episode of the
1:16.0	Afiburn podcast I'm Flashvay here with a good buddy of mine Forest Underwood
1:21.2	a guy that I've known for going on it is gonna be a of June 30th of 2005 when we both showed up for in processing day at your United States Air Force Academy.
1:38.7	What a time? But I was talking to four...
1:40.8	You don't look at the older. That's's amazing me on the other hand like I look and feel you you're younger
1:46.8	You are actually better looking then when we started the academy how you do that I don't I don't know if that's I don't know if that's true. I got a lot more great than these days but we were talking before we
1:57.2	started recording about kind of going to the Air Force Academy and we in force we played
2:01.6	flag football against each other with each other all those different things
2:05.7	once you're once you're there kind of in it doing all the sports and things like that but you kind of
2:11.5	of forget that sometimes when you're at a place like the Air Force Academy, we did a lot of dumb stuff.
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