
Ryan Connell
Strategic Operations Chief in the Acquisition Directorate at the DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), host of the Defense Mavericks podcast
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Aug 4, 2026
Album #80: Me Against The World (with Ryan Connell)
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And, and Ryan Connell, why don't we start with you, since you're our guest? What are your, uh, impressions of Tupac and of the album Me Against the World?

Ryan ConnellGUEST
Well, specifically of Tupac, I have to say it's been a long journey to get to love Tupac.
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The Contracting Experience - Episode 78: Using AI for Acquisition
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10:27Rob LortonHOST
So how is the rapid acquisition team tackling the challenge of organizing our data and across all functionals and all services to actually make it AI-ready?

Ryan ConnellGUEST
So, obviously, you and I had some conversation leading up to the podcast, and then I saw this question, and I was like, oh, so I'm a little outside my ballpark, but I think I'll take it anyway for transparency purposes, right? So, what I found really interesting, maybe it's kind of a twofold answer.

Ryan ConnellGUEST
One is, If you just think about the contracting workflow, like we've talked about, I have a requirement, start coming up with some strategy, drafting documentation, and then maybe oversight and compliance, those type functions.

Ryan ConnellGUEST
It doesn't need this robust data set on the back end of an understanding to be able to do those functions.

Ryan ConnellGUEST
And so the things that really need those robust data sets were like market research and potentially pricing.
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18:26Rob LortonHOST
So as the department leverages AI to write requirements and evaluate data, how is this changing the dynamic with our industry partners? So I imagine we're seeing some contractors use AI to write proposals in response to our AI written requirements, sort of creating a scenario of AI talking to AI, right?