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Test is where new military hardware goes to wait.
Mike sits down with Jenn Wilson, Head of Federal at Nominal, to talk about test and evaluation, the least glamorous gate between a program and the warfighter.
Nominal builds test data infrastructure for hardware. Founded in 2022 by Anduril, Palantir, and Lockheed Martin alumni, it reached a $1 billion valuation in March.
Jenn’s take is that acceleration comes from optimizing what you test for. Cutting test points is the wrong lever.
Topics include:
• Test and evaluation as a mission enabler
• High rate, multimodal test data
• Real-time telemetry and closing the test loop
• DARPA CIPHER Forge and digital twins
• Closing the sim to real gap
• The F-35 crowdsourced flight data program
• Knowledge parity between primes and government testers
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Chapters:
intro
why this, why now
test is not sexy
test as an afterthought
more data, less insight
where the name comes from
the founding story
Mike is a user
streaming telemetry in real time
design of experiments
the Fid Labs acquisition
DARPA CIPHER Forge
closing the sim to real gap
the commercial side
lessons from Ukraine
F-35 crowdsourced flight data
fleet bugs found in days
combined test force
experimental operations unit
speeding up test
the pilot taking fire
knowledge parity with the primes
a billion dollar valuation
hiring at Nominal
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