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Dan Rickert

Dan Rickert

COO (VP of Operations) at Airspace Intelligence (ASI); former U.S. Army Green Beret, Chief of Staff at Palantir Technologies and Merlin Labs; West Point graduate.

Jul 27, 2026

5:09
Yeah, yeah.
5:10
Um, the reality is, like th- the technology exists, and I think in the de- in the Department of War, we've had the benefit of, of having this level of sort of innovation over the last 10 years where a lot of private capital's been invested, um, to, to bring technology to bear to, to solve these problems.
5:29
I think now we're starting to see it, you know, the, the administration has leaned in incredibly hard and say, "Hey, we wanna bring this to other places as well," right? So, um, you know, our company started really in the commercial aviation space working with some of the major airlines, uh, and then brought that same technology to the FAA when they were, when they were competing this.
5:50
And, um, yeah, we're excited about the opportunity to really bring these tools to the air traffic controllers to, um, equip the...
5:57
I mean, this is a generation that's grown up with this, right?

44 MINS LATER

49:58
Mm.
49:58
So it's like, okay, how are we actually making these decisions? Again, how are the energy providers making decisions on how to mitigate these things, but not making them so sweeping that it's having these other knock-on effects, no stoplights, no oxygen machines working, all that sort of stuff, right? So, um, similarly taking that, that similar approach that we've taken, uh, whether that's with DoW or whether that's with, uh, the airlines or, or the FAA and saying like, okay, how do we actually model the grid? How do we look at, um, where there are, you know, vulnerabilities or where there could be particular problems, and then how do we proactively either service those things or in a situation where we do have to, um, make decisions like, okay, we've got a, you know, there's a risk here, how do we make that with as little impact as possible to the end user?

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