Tales From The DIB

Tales From The DIB

Tales From The DIB relates the experience and stories from aged military industrial complex personnel. We share our experiences and know-how about US federal defense contracting in a fun and engaging format that makes light of the complex mire associated with contracting. Get your waders on, we're going deep into the DIB!

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June 23, 2025 45 mins

Bob MacDougall is freshly back from the recent NCMS conference held in Kissimmee, Florida. Bob shares his insight from the conference about current events and briefs from the defense security world. If you are an FSO for your organization, then this conversation is relevant to your job. If you've never been to the NCMS conference, then this conversation might help you to decide on joining the group next year.

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In this episode, Bob and Frank wrap up the FCL process and give some lessons learned over the last 16 months. We've got our FCL and have successfully gone through the process, giving up our secrets and accepting the perpetual evaluation of our personal lives to do fun work with the federal government. Bob gives up some learned and earned knowledge that does not appear on any check lists.

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Today Frank and Jake discuss recent discoveries from a splunk investigation into unusual network traffic. Jake explains how some unusual Chinese IP addresses and domains are being used by Apple and nVidia unbeknownst to users.  Could it be configuration errors that causes the unusual activity from our network? We share some insights about how this could be configuration error, or could be an intentional configuration. 

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March 21, 2024 30 mins

Jacob Anderson joins Frank Muller again to discuss artificial intelligence and the evolving world of prompting with conversational intelligence bots.  Frank talks about coercive prompts, hacking bots to elicit illicit responses from the bots. Jake talks about a recent talk given at SXSW where a chatbot was used to create a disinformation campaign against the presenter. 

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Now that you know how to do business with the US Federal government, listen up on how these contracts are created to make you money! Learn about the different instruments used for collecting money from the government, such as the IDIQ or the fixed-fee structure. Adding more acronyms to your alphabet soup, Frank Muller goes into deeper fiscal details about what these different instruments mean for your cash flow and revenue projecti...

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Have you ever wondered how you would find work with the US federal government? If you've started your business, or are thinking about starting one, then this podcast will help you understand the strategy for finding work that you can bid on with the federal government. This time, Frank Muller and Jacob Anderson go into the details about where to find contracts, where to find people, and what to do when you start your contracti...

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A light discussion about how the recent LLM learners work with an explanation of how the "intelligence" in AI works. Frank discusses his experiences using LLMs to answer complex questions and topics that are relevant to today. We talk about consensus, truth, bias, and how it relates to AI performance.

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June 27, 2023 28 mins

Welcome back to the Tales From the DIB. In this episode we interview Jake Anderson, President of Beyond Ordinary Software Solutions. The topic is all about Q learning and Beyond Ordinary's new product, Hyper Q. Tune in to learn more about this decision making AI tool.

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Now that you're an expert on the facility clearance level, you need to get your people cleared. In this episode we delve into the alphabet soup of the PCL process and learn some of the pain points and processes for getting your personnel cleared. 

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So you want to be a defense contractor? Where do you go? Who do you talk to? You might hear a bunch of acronyms and jargon in meetings with other defense contractors. This podcast will demystify this process and share some insider stories about how the process works to get your facility clearance started and what these acronyms mean.

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