Episode 3: Defense Engagements with The Intelligence Community, Inc.

Graham Plaster joins us to talk about contracts, consortiums, and connecting in the defense and intelligence communities.

SHOWNOTES

In this episode, Graham Plaster joins the show. He served on active duty as a Naval officer for 11 years before launching the Intelligence Community, Inc. His honors include a personal request to serve as the Aide de Camp, to the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and also on the National Security Council as Director of Partnerships.

His book, In the Shadow of Greatness , was written with the Naval Academy class of 2002 and has become a two time LA Times bestseller. It can be found on the official reading list for the Chief of Naval Operations.

-The purposes of crowd sourcing intelligence, staffing, recruiting, business development, marketing,

-What are things that were in high demand and continue to be in demand across the national security ecosystem?

-Importance of the official policies of your place of work, you know, certainly don't put out anything on social media that you shouldn't be doing.

-How we have to figure out how to use LinkedIn or Facebook or Twitter, how to do it well and effectively.

-Why every aspect of government that could have been and should have been decentralized and virtualized a long time ago.

-Understand that you're not going to be a lifestyle company that is fully dependent on government contracts to exist.

-Third offset could have been something like having a bomber or a nuclear weapons. 

-How the capitalistic environments that have competition and the competitive process lead us to the best in technology.

-We've all seen situations where a really great small business that has good technology and good ideas and good leadership can't quite get in the door.

-The use of accelerators and incubators, they're a hub for not only making connections, but also set up so that you can issue stock.

 -How you can do shares and be structured in a way where that's doable.

Quote:

“The small businesses, what they really need is help managing the clients. And in some cases they need lending capital for investors and lenders. We want to solve for that problem. We want to help companies that have a national security focus, get clients, get investors, get lenders.”

Contact/social media info for Graham:

https://diie.substack.com/