Washington AI Network with Tammy Haddad
Jul 12, 2025 · 46 min · 11 segments
In this episode of the Washington AI Network Podcast with Tammy Haddad, Teresa Carlson (president, General Catalyst Institute) and Dr. Jason Rathje (former director, Office of Strategic Capital…
Jason RathjeGuest
Tammy HaddadHost
Teresa CarlsonGuestCameron McCordGuest
Evan BeardGuestJon BattlesGuestCarrie BrowningGuestMark HuntingtonGuest
How does it get to, say, some of the people in the room? Primes, how does that work?
At the end of the day, the money is going to get spent through solicitations for proposals for different technologies that are going to go towards the opportunities and the requirements that the government has proposed.
But I think the really incredible thing that we're seeing now is, I mean, this is why we spent OSC's time focusing on this.
I mean, you talk about the new defense industrial base, it's just a new industrial base, right? OSC's mission was to invest in the industrial commercial base that supports U.S.
I mean, there's a whole range of companies now that are coming up, and many of them are coming up on the tech venture side.
The opportunity for the government now to do direct investment at all levels of the supply chain.
I mean, what has everybody been talking about in the DOD's critical minerals? You're going to get anybody to talk about that three years ago.
So we've got to figure that out now, because it doesn't matter how many great companies we have doing what they want in drones.
And I'll just say real quickly on that is, additionally, I like the idea of these requirements, and I totally know that the requirements are a lot.
However, I think the differentiator is these companies are innovating on behalf of government.
Now, in my day of building the cloud, if we would have waited for the government to ask us for cloud, they were kind of talking around the edges of all this stuff.
So I think you can look for signals, too, that we hear from DOD and government.
You hear the signals, and you can actually build a lot of solutions to innovate on behalf.
How does it get to, say, some of the people in the room? Primes, how does that work?
At the end of the day, the money is going to get spent through solicitations for proposals for different technologies that are going to go towards the opportunities and the requirements that the government has proposed.
But I think the really incredible thing that we're seeing now is, I mean, this is why we spent OSC's time focusing on this.
I mean, you talk about the new defense industrial base, it's just a new industrial base, right? OSC's mission was to invest in the industrial commercial base that supports U.S.
I mean, there's a whole range of companies now that are coming up, and many of them are coming up on the tech venture side.
The opportunity for the government now to do direct investment at all levels of the supply chain.
I mean, what has everybody been talking about in the DOD's critical minerals? You're going to get anybody to talk about that three years ago.
So we've got to figure that out now, because it doesn't matter how many great companies we have doing what they want in drones.
And I'll just say real quickly on that is, additionally, I like the idea of these requirements, and I totally know that the requirements are a lot.
However, I think the differentiator is these companies are innovating on behalf of government.
Now, in my day of building the cloud, if we would have waited for the government to ask us for cloud, they were kind of talking around the edges of all this stuff.
So I think you can look for signals, too, that we hear from DOD and government.
You hear the signals, and you can actually build a lot of solutions to innovate on behalf.
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