EP 1 — Micro-Ant’s Charles McCarrick on Innovation and Opportunity in the DIB

On this week's episode of the DIB Innovators podcast, David talks with Charles McCarrick, Founder, President, and Chief Scientist at Micro-Ant, a company that develops and manufactures custom antennas. They discuss what it's like to work in the Defense Industrial Base, including the excitement around innovation and the challenges of red tape. They also talk about how Micro-Ant thinks about security and IP protection, advice for entrepreneurs on how to create better processes, and what the future holds for defense tech.

Topics discussed:

• The exciting aspects of working in the DIB, like innovation and partnerships.
• What Charles learned about business from growing up with older brothers, and how he wrote about it in the book Lessons My Brothers Taught Me. 
• The challenges to working in the DIB, especially the friction caused by red tape.
• How Micro-Ant thinks about security and how it goes about protecting its intellectual property.
• Advice for entrepreneurs who are just starting out with their innovations and how they can build their businesses through consistent processes and planning.
• How Micro-Ant won a competition at the Artic Circle by being the only one to close a link to a satellite.
• What the future holds for defense tech innovation, especially around resiliency.