Jonathan Pan

We are excited to announce Blue, your Copilot for Military Operations. Commanders who decide faster, win faster. Blue automates labor-intensive, “science of war” decision making inputs, like terrain analysis, mission analysis, decision support templates, so commanders and staff have more time for the art of war and making better informed decisions. War has become increasingly digital, decentralized, and fast – leading to compressed decision cycles. The future of military operations will demand innovative approaches to planning, rehearsal, and execution to outpace adversaries and seize the initiative.

The war in the Middle East today is going to increasingly expose areas of technological need for the Pentagon. The question is whether we respond with urgency. Seattle has the congressional clout and the innovation ecosystem to be part of the solution. Read more here: seattletimes.com/opinion/we-nee…

AMERICAN HERO: CW5 Eric Slover receives the Medal of Honor from @POTUS during tonight’s State of the Union Address.

Introducing Keystone: AI-enabled Blue Force Assurance Effective decision making across defense missions depends on fast, reliable access to integrated data from diverse systems and sources. Today, tracking and managing friendly and allied assets relies on manual processes and disparate systems, leading to potential delays, inaccuracies, and reduced system interoperability. Keystone is an AI-enabled Blue Force Assurance product that ingests reports about friendly units from across echelons and allies, resolves inconsistencies and duplicates, and generates distinct unit entities with assigned confidence levels. Keystone updates these entities in real time, creating a single, trusted object-based data layer for mission command systems.

DHS and ICE are torching public trust with awful comms - telling people not to believe what they’re seeing on video. Americans don’t take well to being told to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears - Sec Noem, who abolished needing a permit for concealed carry in South Dakota, claiming that carrying a gun is equivalent to a violent assault. That argument could perhaps be made, but not by her - refusing to stray from talking points even when new information emerges, giving the sense that truth is subordinated to political messaging - all this after a string of tasteless and unserious tweets from official gov accounts that seem like TRT-fueled recruitment calls for gleeful curbstompers, including a now-deleted tweet last year about how it’s ICE’s job to stop illegal “ideas” from crossing the border Obviously the problems go deeper than one department’s PR, but it’s crazy that their communication is bad enough to alienate even the Fox News crowd, including people who support mass deportations I’m a longtime supporter of border security and upholding immigration law, which is only fair to citizens and law-abiding immigrants who followed the rules in pursuit of the American dream Defending America’s sovereignty and security is an important, honorable mission Incompetent comms undermine it

@KTB_500 Smoke is a great idea. We'll evaluate how to add it to our simulations, hopefully more units get smoke!

**🚨 U.S. ARMY MANEUVER IS DYING IN THE DEAD ZONE – AND TWO OVERLOOKED REALITIES ARE THE KILLERS 🚨** We keep pretending Large-Scale Combat Ops (LSCO) will look like Desert Storm: massed fires, perfect sync, breaches under a tidy smoke curtain. Reality from CTCs and Ukraine: It's a transparent slaughterhouse. Two intertwined blind spots are guaranteeing failure in the contested gray/dead zone – where every future breach will happen: 1/ **We've gutted organic smoke.** Post-COIN "efficiencies" and green policies killed dedicated smoke platoons, vehicle generators, and multispectral obscurants. The 11th ACR has the **ONLY smoke platoon left in the entire U.S. Army** – and we validate every rotation that without it, maneuver dies exposed. Soldiers cross open ground naked to drones, ATGMs, and precision fires. Breaches? Forget it. 2/ **Artillery can't survive to deliver the smoke (or HE) we desperately need.** Traditional PAAs are pre-dug graves. Drones spot thermal flashes in minutes – counterfire arrives before your second volley. Forced hyper-dispersion (single guns over 50-100 km²), 30-50 km standoff, and mandatory shoot-and-scoot shred sustained fires. You can't build or maintain a smoke curtain when tubes are running for their lives and prioritizing survival over volume. Combine them: Breaches deep in the dead zone require **sustained 3D obscuration** to blind overhead drones + ground observers while engineers reduce obstacles and assault forces pass lanes. With no ground smoke and artillery too hunted to sustain missions? **Probability of timely, effective distant smoke + HE suppression: <20%.** Result: Stalled breaches, shredded lead companies, momentum lost, higher plan collapses. We've seen it every rotation: Units die crossing the gray without cover. Ukraine screams the same lesson nightly. This isn't a "nice-to-have." **Obscuration is the enabler for maneuver warfare.** No cloak = no penetration = attrition hell. **WAY AHEAD – URGENT, NO EXCUSES:** - **Revive dedicated smoke capability NOW:** Rebuild Chemical Corps platoons/brigade-level obscuration companies with modern generators, multispectral pots, and drone-delivered options. Resource them like we resource Javelins. - **Force artillery survivability realism at CTCs:** Kill lazy PAAs with OPFOR drones/Lancets. Train dispersed, mobile fires as default – or keep breeding complacency. - **Update doctrine & training:** Bake layered obscuration (ground + projected + EW/deception) into every SOSRA rehearsal. Make smoke priority #1 in fire plans, not an afterthought competing with HE. - **Fund & field fixes yesterday:** Multispectral smoke rounds, vehicle-mounted systems, counter-drone integration for smoke trucks. Maneuver warfare dies without obscuration in the transparent battlefield. We're overlooking the combo that's already killing us in training – imagine against a peer. **Fix it before the first real breach turns into a graveyard.** Adapt or soldiers die exposed. #SmokeOrDie #ArtillerySurvivability #LSCO #DeadZone #ManeuverWarfare #UkraineLessons #CTCTruth #11thACR @CasualArtyFan @jameskgreer77 @SpencerGuard @SecWar

Holiday travel madness is upon us. Get there hours ahead of time, wear sneakers so you can run, and be kind. Everyone is already pissed off 😅

The buying politics within a Combatant Command is super interesting. Never would I have imagined that hiring a bunch of retired military and literally have them half beg/half annoy people into buying software, is a valid strategy.

Nothing beats a military holiday party

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@KTB_500 what are they afraid of? drones throwing off Blue's planning and execution or some potential physical harm of a drone?

Again I will Stress the Army's HUGE blindspot that we just continue not addressing that is eroding our Warfighting even with the newest Tech. Our LEADERS ARE RISK ADVERSE and that is Directly impacting lethality and missed opportunities to get better. We spend $$$ on a CTC Rotation but just keep missing theses obvious improvements due to being afraid... "I asked if I could use drones to call for fire or strike & was told: “no, it’s a training center not a testing center.”"

Can your CTO do this?

@zebird0 5th bullet point LOL

The in-meta SF founder character sheet: > Building B2B AI SaaS / agents > Stanford / MIT ML > Thiel fellow > In their 20s > Asian girl (or twitter CMO) > Second time founder > Technical yapper > Slight god complex > Harker / Menlo / SH > Cash side hustle in HS What else

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@ExiaLabsAI @notvert Congrats. Keep pushing!

Exia Labs was selected as one of four companies to integrate with an unclass NATO MSS environment and demo our products at NATO HQ last week.

Being over 40 is crazy, if you move your head too fast to look in another direction, you might sprain your neck 😂

Stuck in New York for one night. Nothing beats the shitty attitude of JFK service workers. Four people on their phones and I'm the only person in line and nobody wants to help 😂

For business travelers, nothing feels better than hitting your desired status in early December. Delta Diamond for the 7th year!

Belgium (and France) has azerty instead of qwerty keyboards. Kids (many Russian speaking) are playing Dota 2, CS GO, LoL. Not a single one playing Arc Raiders.

One thing that's hard to drill into pre-seed employees is "spend money like its yours" - your company got an award? Cool, that'll be $748.02 to get to the award ceremony (transportation, hotels, etc.). Did we get $748 in earned media for the resulting post? No crazy tips on Uber!