Jorden Gershenson spent 8 years in the Air Force detecting nuclear tests from a basement full of seismometers. Now he's building Aulendur Labs — a startup that wants to forecast everything from freight loads to geopolitical events using the same machine learning powering global weather models.

In this episode we dig into Jorden's path from Air Force technical application specialist to software engineer to startup founder, how he won a DoD SBIR for nuclear plume modeling, why he thinks the government never knows what it actually wants, and how Aulendur Labs just got accepted into the Werner Enterprises accelerator here in Omaha.

Topics include AI forecasting, digital twins, defense vs commercial strategy, the Palantir and Anduril paradigm, and why Omaha could be the next defense tech hub.

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Danny Lilley joins the Kill Chain podcast to talk about his journey from managing hundreds of people at enterprise giants like Swift Transportation and Werner, to building lean and fast at HOPTEK, a startup using AI to transform freight procurement. Danny shares his unfiltered take on agentic AI, why curiosity is now the most valuable professional skill, the real risks of tools like OpenClaw, AI in education, and what zero-day exploits powered by AI mean for the future of cybersecurity. If you think AI is just a chatbot that writes emails, this episode will change your mind.

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What does Android have to do with trucking? More than you'd think.

In this episode of Kill Chain, Terry Reinert sits down with Darrin Demchuk, VP of Strategy at Platform Science, to explore how the smartphone era quietly laid the blueprint for modern fleet technology — and why the lessons learned building apps for skiers on mountains translated directly to building software for truck drivers in blizzards.

Darrin breaks down how AI is reshaping transportation from the inside out — from edge computing models running locally on devices in connectivity dead zones, to agentic workflows that could fundamentally change how drivers interact with their trucks. He also unpacks why the playing field has never been more level for startups, what "going in parallel" means for software development, and why there was one specific day — November 24th — that changed everything for AI-assisted coding.

Plus: legacy systems running on technology nobody learns anymore, the future of transportation in 2036, and why a giant metal shed almost broke their entire installation process.

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