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Emerging Tech Horizons

Dr. Arun Seraphin

ETI provides research and analyses to inform the development and integration of emerging technologies into the defense industrial base. This podcast will feature topics and speakers focusing on emerging technologies.

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00:14:36

Breaking Trail: Women In Security & How It’s Shaping...

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2025/11/05

Join Dr. Arun Seraphin at the 2025 Women in Defense (WID) Conference for a conversation with Michelle Letcher, retired U.S. Army Brigadier General and CEO of Break Trail, exploring the critical landscape of women in security. Letcher provides profound insights into the evolving nature of modern warfare, emphasizing how traditional defense strategies fail to address borderless conflicts involving cyber influence, election interference, and social media disinformation campaigns.Drawing from her

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00:15:39

Advancing Defense Through Data and Public Private...

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2025/10/31

Join Dr. Arun Seraphin at the Women in Defense Conference for an engaging discussion with Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO of Govini and Service to the Flag Award recipient. Tara shares insights on the future of defense technology, public private partnerships (PPP), data-based decision-making, and national security innovation. Drawing on her vast experience across academia, government, and industry, she explores how public private partnerships (PPP) and emerging technologies are transforming the defense

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00:44:59

If GPS Fails, National Security Is at Risk

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2025/10/29

Join Dr. Arun Seraphin for a conversation with Dana Goward, President of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation. Goward shares insights into the critical vulnerabilities of GPS and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) technologies, highlighting the challenges facing U.S. national security. The discussion covers topics such as international PNT strategies and technological alternatives, including global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) like China’s BeiDou and Russia’s GLONASS, as

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00:15:42

Empowering Innovation in Defense Manufacturing and...

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2025/10/24

Join Arun Seraphin at the 2025 Women in Defense Conference for a conversation with Halimah Najieb-Locke, Senior Vice President of Global Public Policy at Darkhive. Halima explores how innovative defense technology startups can transform industrial policy and autonomous systems manufacturing, emphasizing the importance of distributed manufacturing, multi-agency partnerships, and strategic supply chain development for national security operations.To receive updates about the conference please join our

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00:21:05

Innovation in AI-Powered Disaster Response

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2025/10/22

Join guest host Dr. Mark Lewis, President and CEO of the Purdue Applied Research Institute, for a discussion at the 2025 Emerging Technologies Conference with Dr. Kimberly Elenberg from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Ellenberg explores how autonomous AI systems can enhance disaster response and mission-critical operations, emphasizing the importance of multi-agent swarm technologies, sensor integration, and collaborative approaches between government, industry, and academia.Learn

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00:22:30

Leveraging AI to Advance DoD and Industry Collaboration

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2025/10/17

Join guest host Dr. Mark Lewis, President and CEO of the Purdue Applied Research Institute, for a discussion with Dr. Will Roper, CEO of Istari Digital, at the 2025 Emerging Technologies Conference . Dr. Roper explores how AI-driven tools can make innovation and collaboration more efficient, emphasizing the need for data control, software-based processes, and a unified framework that enables both new and established industries to compete and innovate effectively.Learn More:

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00:53:33

Thinking Like the Brain: Neuromorphic AI and the...

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2025/10/15

Join host Dr. Arun Seraphin for a conversation with Dr. Steve Harber of Parallax Advanced Research and the Ohio Aerospace Institute. In this episode, Dr. Harber discusses neuromorphic artificial intelligence, an approach to AI that models computing after the human brain's efficient, adaptive neural networks. The discussion highlights the advantages of neuromorphic AI over traditional computing in power consumption, processing, and its ability to intuitively learn, as well as possible defense

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00:23:14

Women in Defense 2025: Exploring Planetary Protection

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2025/10/10

Join host Arun Seraphin at the 2025 Women in Defense Conference for a conversation with PhD Candidate Adrienne Rudolph and Professor Brent Barbee of the University of Maryland. Together, they discuss the importance of gender solidarity in the defense sector while sharing their expertise in planetary defense systems. Highlighting the need for asteroid and meteoroid deterrence capabilities, they also review the roles of key government agencies and the technologies currently engaged in this

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00:23:20

NATO DIANA: Transatlantic Security and Defense...

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2025/10/08

Join guest host Dr. Mark Lewis, President and CEO of the Purdue Applied Research Institute at the 2025 Emerging Technologies Conference, for a conversation with James Appathurai, Interim Managing Director of NATO DIANA. Together, they address key security and defense issues on NATO’s agenda, including military support for Ukraine, challenges in innovation and acquisition, and priority emerging technologies.Learn More:https://www.diana.nato.int/To receive updates about the conference please join our

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00:22:25

Inside Latvia’s Defense Tech Sector

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2025/10/03

Join Emerging Technologies Conference 2025 guest host Dr. Mark Lewis, President and CEO of the Purdue Applied Research Institute, for a conversation with Elīna Egle, CEO of the Federation of Security and Defense Industries of Latvia. Egle shares insights into Latvia’s growing defense and security sector, highlighting its strengths as well as its vulnerabilities. The discussion covers topics such as funding acquisition, international cooperation, NATO procurement systems, and barriers to innovation

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00:37:16

Rations to the Warfighter: Innovation and...

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2025/10/01

Join guest host Dr. Liz Specht for a conversation with Nicole Favreau Farhadi, Senior Research Biochemist at the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s (DEVCOM) Soldier Center, Combat Feeding Division (CFD). This episode, the final installment of our five-part biomanufacturing series, explores food research within the Department of Defense and the intersection of food biomanufacturing innovation with warfighter readiness. The discussion highlights the Defense Department’s responsibilities in

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00:37:19

DARPA’s Role in Protecting the Agricultural Supply Chain

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2025/09/24

Join guest host Dr. Liz Specht for a conversation with Dr. Michael Koeris, Director of the Biological Technologies Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This episode, the fourth in our five-part series, explores national security and defense readiness cases for food manufacturing and DARPA’s role in driving innovation in this sector. The discussion examines DARPA’s broader position within the Department of Defense’s innovation ecosystem and highlights current federal

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00:14:50

Hackathons – Delivering Relevant Tech to the...

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2025/09/19

Nick Sinai, former U.S. Deputy CTO and venture capital investor, is a leading authority on federal innovation policy and defense start-ups. We spoke to Nick about how hackathons are being used by DOD to address real operational problems outside the formal requirements process. Nick explains that these events build networks of talent, expose participants to new tools and datasets, and foster ideas that can sometimes even mature into field-ready solutions. Hackathons give both industry and government

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00:33:01

The Age of Biology: Safeguarding America’s...

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2025/09/17

Join host Dr. Liz Specht for a conversation with Dr. Michelle Rozo, Vice Chair of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, to discuss why biotechnology is becoming a critical pillar of U.S. national security. Dr. Roso explains how breakthroughs in biomanufacturing promise to secure DoD supply chains and create new defense capabilities, producing key materials like synthetic blood or advanced polymers. The episode explains the evidence that the United States risks losing its lead

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00:41:31

NDAA 2026: Breaking Down the Biggest Changes

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2025/09/15

Join host Arun Seraphin for a conversation with defense acquisition expert Moshe Schwartz to discuss how the FY 2026 NDAA is shaping up. Arun and Moshe lean on their deep expertise in the authorization process to break down new provisions that could significantly change how DoD creates requirements, budgets for systems, and works with commercial and non-traditional contractors.To receive updates about the conference please join our mailing list

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00:20:43

Beyond the Pitch Deck: Venture Signals for Defense...

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2025/09/12

Join guest host Dr. Mark Lewis and Meritech Capital Partners cofounder Paul Madera for a talk on Series C/D investing, how VCs judge business models, and where defense tech actually fits. A former Air Force fighter pilot turned investor, Paul helped build one of Silicon Valley’s leading late-stage venture firms. In this episode, he dives into the real economics of late-stage venture and what it takes to scale emerging defense technologies. He explains how customer dependence, not pitch decks, drives

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00:34:22

Synthetic Strength: Positioning Biomanufacturing as a...

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2025/09/10

Join guest host Dr. Liz Specht for a conversation with Matt Spence, the managing director and global head of venture capital banking at Barclays. In this episode Dr. Spence discusses the role food security plays in national security and how the government can incentivize and support biotechnology research and development. The episode explores how synthetic biology can be leveraged into additional defense uses and dispels common misconceptions about synthetic biology and national security.To receive

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00:30:20

The Future of U.S. Food Security

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2025/09/03

Join host Dr. Arun Seraphin for a conversation with Dr. Liz Specht, a Horizon Institute Public Service Fellow with the Emerging Technologies Institute. This episode launches a five-part series exploring the intersection of national defense and biomanufacturing. Dr. Specht opens the series by examining vulnerabilities in food manufacturing and explaining how emerging technologies can help build resilient agricultural supply chains. Drawing on case studies such as U.S.-China trade dynamics, the

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00:53:49

Beast in the Machine: The Future of AI and Robotics...

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2025/08/20

Join host Dr. Arun Seraphin for a conversation with Dr. George Dougherty, who is a retired Air Force Colonel with deep experience in the Air Force Science & Technology Enterprise. In this episode, Dr. Dougherty discusses his forthcoming book Beast in the Machine: How Robotics and AI Will Transform Warfare and the Future of Human Conflict. This episode provides a preview of the book's central themes and a discussion about the future of robotic warfare and AI-enabled systems. Additionally, we

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00:51:34

Fostering Defense-Tech Innovation Across the NATO...

Emerging Tech Horizons ·

2025/08/13

Join host Dr. Arun Seraphin for a conversation with Mr. Tom McSorley, General Counsel the NATO Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, or DIANA. In this episode, Mr. McSorley discuss the role NATO DIANA plays in supporting the development of critical emerging technologies for defense and security across all 32 NATO-member nations. Additionally, Mr. McSorley previews the role DIANA will play at this year’s NDIA Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference and Exhibition. This episode

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