EP 117— NODA AI's Phil Duong On Building Mission Command For Autonomous Forces

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/philongduong/"><u>Phil Duong</u></a>, CEO and Co-Founder of <a href="https://www.nodaintelligence.ai/"><u>NODA AI</u></a>, is building the mission command layer for autonomous forces that nobody else is focused on. His company orchestrates multi-vendor platforms into coordinated effects the way a JTAC pairs aircraft with targets.</p><p>A Marine Corps naval aviator and JTAC turned defense tech founder, Phil earned NODA AI a $100 million Department of War award to scale mission command for autonomous forces after years refining a thesis on software-defined effects.</p><p><strong>Topics discussed:</strong></p><p>- Building a mission command orchestrator for multi-vendor autonomous forces</p><p>- Flying drones point to point as table stakes</p><p>- Software-defined effects and working backward from desired end states</p><p>- Adaptive recomposition when assets go down mid-mission</p><p>- Operating autonomous systems in disconnected, denied environments</p><p>- Navigating the triad of warfighter, Pentagon, and Capitol Hill</p><p>- Why software will overtake hardware in future conflict</p><p>- Finding investors who truly back founders at the earliest stage</p><p><strong>Listen to more episodes: </strong></p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dib-innovators/id1720062726"><u>Apple </u></a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5Z3PpCHsglA3uk2S6dCRBP"><u>Spotify </u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2eBOnzz1SX0Psj6BmbdCw"><u>YouTube</u></a></p><p><a href="https://radicl.com/dib-innovators-podcast"><u>Website</u></a></p>