Agentic AI and the Pentagon's Integration Challenge

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of integrating agentic AI into military networks and operational workflows.

Agentic AI is quickly moving from demo to deployment inside the Department of Defense. But what does it actually mean to give AI "agency" — and what does it take to make those systems work on real military networks? In this episode, Ryan sits down with Ben Van Roo, co-founder and CEO of Legion Intelligence, Jags Kandasamy, co-founder and CEO of Latent AI, and Aaron Brown, co-founder and CEO of Lumbra AI, to discuss why the real challenge is not just building smart models but getting AI agents to run on military networks and inside operational workflows. They cover deploying agents in denied environments, compressing models for the edge, orchestrating them across stovepiped systems, and the Pentagon's struggle to scale and buy these tools fast enough to matter.

People in this episode

Host: Ryan

Guests: Ben Van Roo, Jags Kandasamy, Aaron Brown

Topics covered

• Agentic AI
• military networks
• Department of Defense
• AI deployment
• operational workflows
• model compression
• scaling technology

Keywords

• Agentic AI
• Department of Defense
• military technology
• AI integration
• operational efficiency
• model deployment
• network challenges

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Legion Intelligence, Latent AI, Lumbra AI, Department of Defense, Pentagon

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