Ken Miller
AOC Director of Advocacy & Outreach, Host of @AOCrows From the Crows' Nest Podcast
Appears in 116 Episodes
The War In Ukraine After 2 Years
In this AOC member/subscriber-only episode of From the Crows’ Nest, host Ken Miller is joined by friend and colleague, retired USAF Colonel Jeffrey Fischer, to discuss...
High Powered Microwaves (HPM): Challenges, Trade-offs and Pursuits
In the episode of From the Crows’ Nest, host Ken Miller is joined by Dr. Andrew Long of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). Dr. Long has spent more than 16 years desi...
US Defense Budget, Middle East Unrest, & Directed Energy Power
From the Crows’ Nest Host Ken Miller is joined once again by AOC Senior Analyst Matt Thompson and JED Editor-in-Chief John Knowles. They continue their discussion from...
Reshaping the U.S. Defense Force
In this episode of From the Crow’s Nest, host Ken Miller brings back Brian Clark, Senior Fellow and Director for the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the ...
Insights With John Knowles and Matt Thompson: A Candid Conversation
In the first episode of From the Crows’ Nest subscriber series, host Ken Miller sits down with John Knowles, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Electromagnetic Dominanc...
Pushing the Boundaries of Wideband Technology
In this episode of From the Crow’s Nest, host Ken Miller speaks with Jarrett Holcomb, a senior research engineer at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). Jarrett la...
Inside AOC 2023, Day 3
In this episode of From the Crows’ Nest, host Ken Miller is joined by Day 3 Keynote Speaker Vice Admiral Francis Morley, US Navy. Admiral Morley is the Principle Milit...
Inside AOC 2023, Day 2
In this special episode of From the Crows’ Nest, host Ken Miller welcomes Col. William “Dollar” Young, USAF (Ret.) and Maj. Gen. David Gaedecke, USAF (Ret.) to discuss...
Inside AOC 2023, Day 1
In this episode of FTCN, host Ken Miller is joined by the opening keynote speaker, Lt Gen Matthew Glavy, Deputy Commandant for Information, US Marine Corps. Ken also s...
The Importance of Sharing the Electromagnetic Spectrum
In this episode, Ken chats with Gordon Mansfield, Vice President of Global Technology Planning at AT&T Services. Mr. Mansfield manages AT&T’s investments in the electr...
A Conversation with Dylan Duplechain, Chief Engineer, USAF 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing
In this episode, host Ken Miller sits down with Dylan Duplechain, the Chief Engineer of the US Air Force’s 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing. Ken and Dylan dive deeper into ...
Why EMSO Matters with Col. (Ret.) Laurie M. Buckhout, US Army
In this episode of From the Crows’ Nest, host Ken Miller sits down with longtime friend and colleague retired Colonel Laurie Buckhout to discuss a range of current cha...
The 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing – leading US Air Force efforts to dominate the electromagnetic spectrum
In this episode of From the Crows Nest, host Ken Miller sits down with Colonel Joshua Koslov, Commander of the U.S. Air Force 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing (SWW), out of...
Navigating the Labyrinth of AECA and ITAR Regulations
In this episode of From the Crows’ Nest, we try to make sense of how to navigate the crazy labyrinth of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the International Traffi...
A View of EW From AOC’s New Senior Analyst
In this episode of From the Crows’ Nest, Ken Miller sits down the Matt Thompson, AOC’s new Senior Analyst. Matt joined the AOC to provide operational and technical ana...
A Conversation with Dr. Alix Valenti
In this episode of From the Crows’ Nest, host Ken Miller sits down with journalist, writer, and friend, Dr. Alix Valenti. Alix hosts her own podcast too, D-Fence, whi...
Achieving Spectrum Superiority With the Hudson Institute
The AOC recently co-hosted a panel discussion with the Hudson Institute. Moderated by AOC President Brian Hinkley and Hudson Senior Fellow Timothy Walton, we hear from...
An EW/EMSO Summer Round-up
As the Ukraine War continues, we are learning essential lessons for the EW and EMSO communities (hint: some of them are not new)... Host Ken Miller is joined by John K...
The Path Forward in Navy Acquisition Efforts
In this episode, we hear insights from a webinar with VADM Frank "Spanky" Morley about the current state of play in today’s Department of the Navy acquisition efforts....
Mastering the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Insights from EW Experts
At AOC Europe, EW experts gathered to discuss the most significant challenges and potential solutions for achieving multi-domain integration. In this episode, Ken Mill...
Decoding the Congressional Defense Budget: Politics, Procedures, and Progress
In this episode, join host Ken as he unravels the intricate world of the congressional defense budget process. Joined by Madison Arcangeli, Katy Nazaretova from Forza ...
The Integration Imperative: Lessons in Multi-Domain Mastery
Effective communication and decision-making are critical for success in multi-domain operations (MDO) in today's fast-paced world. While in Germany attending AOC Euro...
Navigating Our Dependency on GPS
The U.S. relies highly on GPS, navigation timing systems, and satellites. And recently, GPS was labeled as a single point of failure for America by the Director of Res...
The Arctic Frontier: A New Security Battleground
The power struggle between the U.S. and China is all too familiar. After the Chinese-operated balloon traveled from the Aleutian Islands down to the US Heartland, the ...
Finding Creative Solutions to Global Security Challenges
We all face complex challenges to global security and can examine these issues from many different perspectives. One of these perspectives is fiction storytelling, whi...
The State of Directed Energy
Directed energy has progressed significantly in the past year, with warfighters field-testing multiple prototypes. But how can we ensure the technology is operationall...
The National Security Risk of Microelectronics – Part Two
Ken and the Draper Team continue discussing the microelectronics supply chain and strategies for the US to increase its competitive edge.
The National Security Risk of Microelectronics-Part One
Ken Miller continues the microelectronics discussion to understand how the United States should invest in its industry partners to maintain its competitive edge in the...
Bureaucracy from an Entrepreneur’s Perspective
Entrepreneurs in defense face a difficult challenge; navigating red tape and developing innovations for bureaucracies is no easy task. Rick Lu offers advice on getting...
A Deeper Dive Into Microelectronics
Microelectronics is a part of everything we do in the military and business. But do we properly understand it to make the right decisions? Host Ken Miller dives deep i...