37: CRIC Director CDR Ben Salazar
CRIC Podcast
Managing CNO's maniacs is not an easy job, but somebody has to do it. Join CDR Ben Salazar and me as we talk about some of the back room difficulties and successes of the CRIC, what NWDC actually stands for, and what to expect for the next round of CRIC accessions.
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36: Question and Answer Session
CRIC Podcast
I take a minute to answer listener questions-thank you for your help in making this episode possible!
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35: Robotics with Paul Scharre of CNAS
CRIC Podcast
What's the difference between the Army's approach to using unmanned aircraft vs the Air Force's? Why does it matter? Join robotics expert Paul Scharre and me as we discuss these issues and why it is going to take a major change in mindset to get the most use of our drones.
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34: Connecting People with Lyndsay Westby-Gibson
CRIC Podcast
At the center of the Naval Warfare Development Command and its innovation mission is a connector who seems to know everyone in the innovation world. My guest today is Lyndsay Westby-Gibson, who has helped connect me with innovators and great guests in the past. We talk about what's going on over on the East Coast, and why MCPON is visiting NWDC later this month (we like to think it's because he loves the podcast). ...
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33: Question Everything with LT Jason Knudson
CRIC Podcast
Today's episode waxes philosophical as returning guest LT Knudson and I discuss innovation in a bureaucracy and how to change the way we think about the Navy.
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32: 5 Sales Techniques to Increase Your Influence
CRIC Podcast
Today's show is just me, talking about how to use sales techiniques to increase your influence at work.
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31: Innovation in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) World
CRIC Podcast
LT Deward Cummings, EOD Officer, shares with us how he managed to create a low cost solution to prevent Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) from harming local populations.
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30: Celestial Navigation Revised with LT William Hughes
CRIC Podcast
LT Hughes takes a few minutes out of his Independence Day weekend to talk to us about the idea he had on USS Benfold that was pitched (and accepted) to CNO, how to get your message out there, and what life as a JO was like on the most innovative ship on the waterfront.
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29: Deckplate Entrepreneurship with DC1 Nisha Witt
CRIC Podcast
DC1 Nisha Witt shares with me her budding company and how she found a way to apply a decades old technology to help improve our smartphones' battery life.
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28: Navy Retention with CDR Guy "Bus" Snodgrass
CRIC Podcast
CDR Snodgrass stops in to discuss why he wrote his viral 24 page white paper on Navy retention, offers insights on what is keeping people in as well as pushing them out. Which communities have the toughest time retaining folks? Check out this episode and find out!
info_outlineToday's guest is CDR Rich LeBron, Commanding Officer of USS Benfold. We talk about enabling junior sailors, Athena Navy, and fostering a culture of innovation from E1 to O5.
The CNO's Rapid Innovation Cell is an organization of 15 junior officers and enlisted. Its goal is to empower and enable emerging Naval leaders to rapidly create, develop and implement disruptive solutions that tackle warfighter needs while advocating for, and inspiring, deckplate innovation throughout the Fleet.
ET1(SW) Jeff Anderson is a member of the CNO's Rapid Innovation Cell. The views expressed are his alone, and not the official position of the CRIC, Naval Warfare Development Command, CNO, the United States Navy or any other entity explicitly or implicitly mentioned in the above.
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