You are listening to the War in the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense and foreign affairs.

My name's Ryan Evans and in this episode I sat down with Skyler Moore, the chief technology officer of U.S. Central Command.

Listen to this episode about how Scentcom is planning to deter the next war or win it if necessary through the application of exciting technology.

So Skyler, how did you get here? How did you get to this role?

We've had a pretty interesting career.

I have had quite a circuitous route.

So I think that the constant has been circling the issue of tech and national security

just from different perspectives. I started in the private sector

and really went from there so started by consulting both defense primes and tech

startups on how they could approach this as a market, but then went into Office of Secretary of Defense looking at the Defense and Innovation Board's

S&T portfolio, which obviously had a heavy tech engagement portion of it, and then went to Congress writing tech

legislation thinking about it from a legislative perspective and then more

recently went to Task Force 59 where that was really operations focused out in

theater thinking about the ways that these technologies

could be used in practical application and now in my current role as chief

technology officer for SINCOM. It's quite a lot. Industry, executive branch,

legislative branch, military, and now you're in this

position as a civilian. That is correct. Talk to us more about your industry position and how that

shaped, how you view the relationship between technology, national, and how you view the relationship between technology and

national security and innovation. I think it was very helpful to start with

industry because it gave me a business perspective on tech and national security that I think is sometimes difficult

to find or grass once you're in government.

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