The Convergence - An Army Mad Scientist Podcast
1) 117. From Campus to Command: The William & Mary Wargaming Lab with Luke Miller
[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist and the Georgetown University Wargaming Society co-hosted our Game On! Wargaming & The Operational Environment Conference at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, ...Show More
2) 116. Do Androids Dream of Electric War: The Reality of Autonomous Weapons with Dr. Mark Bailey
“I think there’s a moral question that one has to ask in general about whether it’s appropriate for a machine to make a decision as to whether or not a human ought to live or die” [Editor’s Note: As ...Show More
3) 115. 15 Layers Deep: Supporting Soldiers with Geospatial Intelligence
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4) 114. Data to Dominance: AI & Gaming to Create Decision Advantage with Jon Pan
“Agentic warfare is here, whether we welcome it or not. The era of military planners manually gathering limited data and compiling static crisis response options on briefing slides is over. In the ne...Show More
5) 113. Beyond Venture Capital: How the Government is Investing in Innovation
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6) 112. Battle Tested: Revolutionizing Wargaming with AI featuring Dr. Billy Barry
Today’s The Convergence podcast welcomes back proclaimed Mad Scientist Dr. Billy Barry, Professor of Emerging Technology at the U.S. Army War College, to discuss his latest innovation — an Artificial ...Show More
7) 111. Tactical Tech: How Smartphones are Countering Jamming in Ukraine with Dr. Sean Gorman
“The hope is that we can begin to profile what the capabilities of the jammer are that we’re seeing out in the field with enough measurements from enough devices” [Editor’s Note: In last week’s post,...Show More
8) 110. Generative AI: The New Ammunition in the Data Arms Race with Ben Van Roo
[Editor’s Note: Today’s The Convergence podcast welcomes back Ben Van Roo, recent author of our Unlocking TRADOC’s Potential with GenAI: Opportunities and Challenges blog post, to continue our explor...Show More
9) 109. Ghosts in the Battlespace: The UAP Threat with the James Gang
“We have craft that defy physics as we know it and are moving at speeds that are at least a hundred times faster than anything a human or robot… can produce on the planet.” [Editor’s Note: Today’s Th...Show More
10) 108. Soldier Dominance and Battlefield Primacy
Soldier Dominance and Battlefield Primacy “What we’ve got to think about is, how do we make our Soldiers more effective, how do we maintain that battlefield primacy for our commanders, for our Soldier...Show More