Author Archives: Austin

USSF versus USSPACECOM

As I trav­el around the space indus­try, I often find a lot of con­fu­sion about which gov­ern­ment orga­ni­za­tion is respon­si­ble for what and their dis­tinct roles and respon­si­bil­i­ties. Over the upcom­ing weeks, I will write a series of blog posts… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Challenges of DoD AI/ML Path

As the Depart­ment of Defense (DoD) con­tin­ues to explore dif­fer­ent use cas­es for inte­grat­ing Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence (AI) into its every­day process­es, it must learn from past lessons where AI deploy­ments failed. con­tin­ue reading

Bias of Large Language Models

With the increased use of com­mer­cial large lan­guage mod­els (LLM) in sci­en­tif­ic research, it is more impor­tant than ever to use crit­i­cal think­ing to ask ques­tions and under­stand respons­es. Before we focus on the use of LLM for sci­en­tif­ic research,… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Thoughts on SOF Week 2024

I recent­ly attend­ed Spe­cial Oper­a­tion Force (SOF) Week 2024, which was not just a chance to recon­nect with old friends but also a valu­able plat­form to delve into the evolv­ing needs of our HQ. The SOF Com­mu­ni­ty’s relent­less pur­suit of… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Information Diets and NPCs

Austin dis­cuss­es his prac­tice of zero-inbox, how to main­tain a strict infor­ma­tion diet, and the elim­i­na­tion of Non-Playable Char­ac­ters (NPC) from his dai­ly life con­tin­ue reading

ChatGPT — Travel Agent

I took my wife on a ten-day trip to Italy for our 17th wed­ding anniver­sary. One of the chal­lenges was to find time actu­al­ly to plan our trip. Since I bought tick­ets in Decem­ber, in the­o­ry, we should have had… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Top Three Questions for the DoD Cloud Journey

Is the DoD ask­ing the right ques­tions as it con­tin­ue move large aspects to the Cloud? con­tin­ue reading

A Quick Guide for Military IT Professionals’ Next Steps

The pic­ture above is the day that I left the mil­i­tary. When I left the mil­i­tary, I had a choice to tran­si­tion to the civil­ian sec­tor for either a role with­in the DoD civil­ian, DoD Con­trac­tor, or Civil­ian sec­tor.  Along the way,… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Basic Operating Procedures for Seeing the World

I have been to thir­teen dif­fer­ent loca­tions in the past four months, includ­ing mul­ti­ple coun­tries. In all places that I have been to, there are basic oper­at­ing pro­ce­dures that have served me well. One is basic man­ners. The pow­er of Ma’am,… con­tin­ue read­ing »

A Multiphase Approach To Killing the Living Dead

Here is an arti­cle that I orig­i­nal­ly did for AFCEA Sig­nal Mag­a­zine in Octo­ber 2022. Enjoy. The U.S. Space Force is going through tech­no­log­i­cal evo­lu­tion as it con­tin­ues to grow from its U.S. Air Force roots. One of the major… con­tin­ue read­ing »

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