The Convergence - An Army Mad Scientist Podcast

The Convergence is an Army Mad Scientist podcast with a distinct focus on divergent viewpoints, a challenging of assumptions, and insights from thought leaders and subject matter experts. The purpose of "The Convergence" is to ...more

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July 31, 2025 00:46:12
114. Data to Dominance: AI & Gaming to Create Decision Advantage with Jon Pan

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...

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113

June 18, 2025 00:37:22
113. Beyond Venture Capital: How the Government is Investing in Innovation

113. Beyond Venture Capital: How the Government is Investing in Innovation

[Editor’s Note:  Regular readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory understand the transformative potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have on...

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112

March 27, 2025 00:59:44
112. Battle Tested:  Revolutionizing Wargaming with AI featuring Dr. Billy Barry

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...

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111

March 13, 2025 00:28:31
111. Tactical Tech: How Smartphones are Countering Jamming in Ukraine with Dr. Sean Gorman

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...

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110

February 20, 2025 00:36:16
110. Generative AI: The New Ammunition in the Data Arms Race with Ben Van Roo

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...

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109

January 23, 2025 01:07:14
109. Ghosts in the Battlespace: The UAP Threat with the James Gang

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...

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