Crossing the Valley

By Frontdoor Defense

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Episodes: 57

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Few companies make it from pilot to production in the defense market. Those who do often change the industry in the process. How do they do it? What lessons can startups take from their trials, successes, and failures? Crossing the Valley tells the stories of the trailblazers who are forging a new path for America's defense. www.valleycrossers.com

Episode Date
Ep. 56: "The Adversary Doesn't Give a S*** About Your Compliance State"
Aug 13, 2025
Ep. 55: Equipping the Military for Human-Centric Warfare
Aug 06, 2025
Ep. 54: Tracking Stuff in Space
Jul 30, 2025
Ep. 53: The Startup General
Jul 23, 2025
Ep. 52: Rebuilding America's Defense Industrial Base
Jul 16, 2025
Ep. 51: From Silicon Valley to Lieutenant Colonel: The Detachment 201 Story
Jul 09, 2025
Ep 50: Scaling a Dual-Use AI Company
Jul 02, 2025
Ep. 49: From Blockbusters to Battlefields
Jun 25, 2025
Ep. 48: What the Army Learned from Arcane Thunder
Jun 18, 2025
Ep. 47: The Rebirth of the United Launch Alliance
Jun 11, 2025
Ep. 46: Meet the Tech Heretic Foiling China's Attempts to Take Over the Grid
Jun 04, 2025
Ep. 45: What I Learned at SOF Week (Pt 2)
May 28, 2025
Ep. 44: SPECIAL EDITION - A Peek into SOF Week (Pt. 1)
May 21, 2025
Ep. 43: The New Cavalry is Coming
May 14, 2025
Ep 42: The Navy's Acquisition Overhaul
May 07, 2025
Ep 41: Onebrief is Reimagining Military Planning
Apr 30, 2025
Ep. 40: A Software-Defined Approach to Autonomy
Apr 16, 2025
Ep. 39: LAUNCH DAY - Introducing Blue Water Autonomy
Apr 09, 2025
Ep. 38: Has the Air Force Built its Last Manned Airplane?
Mar 26, 2025
Ep. 37: Searching for Meaning: How Danti Makes Sense of the World's Data
Mar 19, 2025
Ep. 36: Contested Logistics: Repairing America's Blind Spot
Mar 12, 2025
Ep 35: Sending LOTS of Satellites to Space, Fast
Mar 05, 2025
Ep. 34: Reinventing Maxar: From Earth Observation to Decision Intelligence
Feb 26, 2025
Ep. 33: Why the F-22 Is Vulnerable...and what this founder is doing to fix it
Feb 19, 2025
Ep 32: How Domino Data Lab Used ML to Find Mines for the Navy
Feb 12, 2025
Ep 31: How Palantir Builds New Products
Feb 05, 2025
Ep 30: Hypersonic Test Beds and In-Space Manufacturing
Jan 29, 2025
Ep 29: Finding a Needle in the Haystack
Jan 15, 2025
Ep 28: Doing Customer Discovery in Defense
Jan 08, 2025
Ep. 27: Building (Many) Defense Startups
Dec 11, 2024
Ep 26: Using Hardware to Sell Software
Dec 04, 2024
Ep. 25: Bootstrapping the Thunderdome
Nov 27, 2024
Ep. 24: Laying the Foundation for Defense Disruption
Nov 21, 2024
Ep 23: Supplying Commercial Data for Defense Missions
Nov 13, 2024
Ep 22: How Project Maven Delivered AI to the Army
Oct 02, 2024
Ep 21: Building a DoD Startup
Sep 18, 2024
Ep. 20: Integration as a Superpower
Sep 11, 2024
Ep. 19: How to Build Software for Warfighters
Sep 04, 2024
Season 2 Ep 9: CounterCraft is Making Deception Easy (and that's a good thing)
Aug 21, 2024
Season 2 Ep 8: Dan Magy and Ben Kohlmann on Navigating the Defense Ecosystem
Aug 14, 2024
Season 2 Ep 7: Rebuilding the Industrial Base
Jul 24, 2024
Season 2 Episode 6: From Commercial Radar to Counter-Drone Leader
Jul 10, 2024
Season 2 Ep 5: Revitalizing American Manufacturing with MacroFab
Jul 03, 2024
Season 2 Ep 4: Vannevar Labs is Changing the Defense Tech Paradigm
Jun 26, 2024
Ep 12: Jade Baranski and Mobilize are Opening a new door to Defense Innovation
Jun 19, 2024
Ep 11: Inside AeroVironment's big Replicator Win
Jun 12, 2024
Ep. 10: How goTenna went from commercial company to 350 government customers
Jun 05, 2024
Ep. 09: How IronEagleX Reverse Engineered a Rapidly-Growing Defense Tech Startup
Apr 03, 2024
Ep. 08 - From Scaleup to Startup: Marc Frankel is Solving Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities with Lessons from Palantir and Expanse
Mar 27, 2024
Ep. 07: How Firehawk Aerospace Won Congressional Appropriations to Fuel their Liftoff
Mar 20, 2024
Ep. 06: Building the National Security OS with Second Front Systems
Mar 13, 2024
Ep. 05: Growing CFD Research from the Garage to a $75M Business
Mar 06, 2024
Ep. 04: Growing ID.me to a $150M ARR Unicorn
Feb 28, 2024
Ep. 03: How ZeroEyes Went Straight to Production with DoD
Feb 21, 2024
Ep. 2: Apogee Research is Changing the System from Within
Feb 14, 2024
Ep. 1: Bootstrapping from Prototype to Production, with Accrete AI
Feb 07, 2024
Coming Soon: Crossing the Valley
Feb 04, 2024