Recode Decode: Flying cars are the future of military transportation

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Christopher Kirchhoff, a former partner at DIUx, the Pentagon’s Silicon Valley office, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how the Defense Department is trying to be smarter about technology. Kirchhoff says the U.S. military can benefit greatly from innovations in drones, robotics, satellites and more, and DIUx was developed to let the Pentagon proactively find that technology and quickly buy it at scale quickly before it becomes obsolete. He talks in detail about how electric flying cars are being developed to replace military helicopters, and why it’s vitally important that people working in Silicon Valley help the government modernize all departments, including commerce and education. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's show is brought to you by IBM.
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0:21.2	I'm Cara Swisher, executive editor of Recode.
0:24.0	You may know me as the general in charge of the militia etharid,
0:27.4	but in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Recode decode a podcast about tech
0:31.8	and media's key players.
0:33.1	Big ideas and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:35.8	Today in the red chair is Chris Kirkhoff, a former partner at the Pentagon's Silicon Valley
0:40.8	office, D-I-U-X, which stands for Defense Innovation Unit Experimental. What a name.
0:46.8	It funds private companies in exchange for commercial products that can solve national defense
0:51.8	problems. He's also a visiting technologist at Harvard University's Institute of Politics,
0:57.0	Chris, welcome to Recode decode. Thank you.
0:59.8	So when I met you, you were working for Ash Carter, is that correct?
1:03.6	I was. Explain this D-U-I-X because I think it's really interesting.
1:07.6	There's, you know, the CIA has an innovation unit here, all kinds of government agencies do,
1:12.1	but Ash was a real techophile.
1:15.1	You have to give him credit for his vision.
1:17.3	So back in the Defense Secretary under President Obama.
1:20.8	He was, but in 2001, he was merely professor Ash Carter at the Kennedy School Government.
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