Okay friends, pop quiz. What do the internet, handheld GPSs, self-driving cars, UAVs,

prosthetics, and oh yeah, stealth fighters have in common? Well they all trace their roots

to a small agile governmental organization known for deep strategic thinking and cutting

edge technologies. But what is the defense advanced research projects agency? Who works

there? And why feature them here on the Fighter pilot podcast? Well, stay tuned to learn

all this and a whole lot more with this week's amazing guest, U.S. Air Force Colonel Daniel

Jefferson. At the end of the day, you have to have someone who is investing in that longer

range horizon of technology and willing to invest in high-risk type of things if you expect

yourself to really enable what DARPA's main mission is and that is to both create and

prevent strategic surprise.

Strap in for the Fighter Pilot podcast, the internet radio show that explores the fascinating

world of air combat, the aircraft, the weapon systems, and most importantly, the people.

Now, here's your host, retired U.S. Navy Fighter pilot, Vincent ILO.

Hello everyone and welcome to the show. I am your host, Vincent ILO, Call Sign Jello.

In just a few minutes, we will get to our incredible interview on the defense advanced research

projects agency, which is a bit of a mouthful, so we'll simply call it DARPA. Now I will

have some help with a co-host coming along shortly, but before then just a couple quick

announcements and listener questions. Now first, I hope everyone out there is doing well.

Man, I almost couldn't be better. I just returned from a couple days with a podcast listener

in his family. He reached out when I mentioned on a recent episode that I like to fly fish.

So he said, hey, why don't you come on up and I took him up on the invitation, spent a

couple days on the U.B. River, not far from Beale Air Force Base in California, and got

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