BENS DC member Dr. Michael Capps, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Diveplane, secures $25 million to grow its Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) platform.
BENS Silicon Valley member David Spirk, former Chief Data Officer at the Department of Defense, joins Palantir as a Senior Counselor. Spirk, will now advise Palantir and focus on helping its leadership grow the company’s government and international business.
US Ambassador Tsunis is Joined By a Delegation of BENS Members along with Hellenic National Defence General Staff Chief General Constantinos Floros as He Visits Alexandroupolis Port Authority in Greece.
Building the Base Interviews Sue Gordon, Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
In this week’s episode of Building the Base, BENS Senior Fellow, Hondo Guerts and BENS member, Lauren Bedula join Sue Gordon, Director at CACI International and former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, to discuss the future of the defense industrial network. One of the most promising avenues Sue highlighted was increased collaboration with the private sector, an area which has seen increased activity in part spurred on by the urgency of the Ukraine crisis.
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September 27 | Virtual BENS Virtual Discussion with Jonathan Pelson, author of Wireless Wars: China’s Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We’re Fighting Back
September 27 | Austin BENS member luncheon discussion on the effect on special forces of 20 years of constant war with former Deputy SOCOM Commander VADM Tim Szymanski USN (Ret.)
September 29 | Dallas BENS Texas Dallas luncheon discussion with Major General Andrew Gebara, USAF, Commander, Eighth Air Force, and Commander, Joint-Global Strike Operations Center, Barksdale Air Force Base.
Multiple Dates, Locations BENS Texas luncheon discussions on China and the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party with Col Heino Klinck, USA (Ret.), Senior Associate, CSIS, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia.
October 17 | Virtual MEMBERS ONLY: Virtual Conversation with Lieutenant General Christopher T. Donahue, The Last American Soldier To Leave Afghanistan.
November 30 | Dallas Luncheon Discussion of the Southern Border with Todd Bensman, Author, America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration.
BENS NY Metro welcomed former Colombian Ambassador to the United States, Juan Carlos Pinzon, this week to discuss the important partnership between the United States and Colombia. Members focused on…
Shield Capital, a venture firm that invests in defense and space startups where BENS member Raj Shah is Managing Partner, announced that retired U.S. Air Force general David Goldfein has joined its…
The Iranian government claims it has discovered a massive deposit of lithium, potentially holding 8.5 million tons of the rare element. Mohammad Hadi Ahmadi, an official at Iran’s Ministry of…
