On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Leigh Madden, the CEO of Epirus, an innovative power management company founded in 2018 — named for the magical bow with infinite arrows wielded by the Greek hero Theseus — to develop high-power microwave systems to counter drones and cruise missiles, discusses the firm’s innovative approach, the growing threat, lessons from the Russia’s war on Ukraine, growing a small business in the Pentagon’s defense innovation ecosystem, competing against established primes and the difference between leading a new small firm and the national security arm of industry titan Microsoft with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
