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Impact Point
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technology, policy, and people, and how they all come together to create real-world change.
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May 19, 2026
Aid Is Not Charity, It's Investment; Syria, Security, and the Future of US Assistance with David Lillie of Syrian American Medical Society
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-lillie-60158196/?isSelfProfile=false" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">David Lillie</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">, Executive Director of the </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/syrian-american-medical-society/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Syrian American Medical Society,</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> has spent 25 years delivering humanitarian assistance in conflict zones, including Syria, Sudan, and Rwanda. In this episode, he makes the case that humanitarian aid is not charity. It is crisis prevention, and the cost of cutting it is measured in instability, disease, and displacement, not budget savings.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">With over 320 million people globally in need of aid and US funding declining sharply, David lays out what breaks first when the money stops, why Syria demands sustained attention after liberation, and how AI and better data practices can help the sector do more with less.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">KEY TAKEAWAYS</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">00:00</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Introduction. </span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">00:42</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> After funding was cut, agencies faced immediate life-or-death decisions about continuing services in the field.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">04:18</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Humanitarian crises and big gaps do not disappear when attention and funding dry up; they become more dangerous.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">06:00</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Syria's displacement crisis shows how sustained investment prevents regional instability and disease spread.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">18:27</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Return on humanitarian investment shows up in population movement, crises that emerge,t and private sector growth, not government reports.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">21:29</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> When funding stops, local partners collapse first, and there is a huge cost to rebuilding.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">30:34</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> 70% of humanitarians use AI, but only 3% use it for anything beyond basic summaries and translation.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">38:46</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> AI will not replace humanitarian workers, but it can help them see risks faster and catch fraud earlier.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">45:26</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Humanitarian assistance is not compassion. It is a smart investment. It has a framing issue and we need to let the data speak about why HA is an investment and why it matters.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">RESOURCES MENTIONED</strong></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-lillie-60158196/?isSelfProfile=false" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">David Lillie</a></p><p>https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-lillie-60158196/?isSelfProfile=false</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/syrian-american-medical-society/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Syrian American Medical Society</a> | LinkedIn</p><p>https://www.linkedin.com/company/syrian-american-medical-society/</p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) | Website</span></p><p><a href="https://sams-usa.net/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://sams-usa.net/</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Humanitarian Data Exchange:</span></p><p><a href="https://data.humdata.org/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://data.humdata.org/</a></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">GeoWrangler:</span></p><p><a href="https://geowrangler.thinkingmachin.es/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://geowrangler.thinkingmachin.es/</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Thanks for listening to the "Impact Point" podcast. If you enjoyed the show, please leave us a 5-star review and subscribe to our channel so you don't miss any future episodes. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The Impact Point podcast is brought to you by Q2IMPACT.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">#LeadershipDevelopment #ChangeManagement #AIGovernance</span></p>
April 15, 2026
The Drone Threat Is Not Waiting: C-UAS, Speed, and the Adaptation Imperative with Brad Halsey of Building Momentum
<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The drone threat is no longer a future problem. Recent incidents at El Paso and Fort Hancock have exposed a critical vulnerability — not in technology, but in how organizations coordinate decisions under pressure. The biggest counter-UAS readiness gap is a practice problem, not a hardware one.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">In this episode of “Impact Point,” we sit down with </span><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/brad-halsey-74109933" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Brad Halsey</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">, Founder of </span><a href="http://linkedin.com/company/building-momentum-llc" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Building Momentum </a><span style="background-color: transparent;">and former Navy Surface Warfare Officer. Brad draws on two decades of defense innovation and experiential learning to explain why adaptation speed now trumps technology sophistication, how government access restrictions are stalling domestic innovation, and why the organizations that will hold the line are built on continuous iteration — not advanced hardware.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">Key Takeaways:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">00:00</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Introduction.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">06:15</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> There is no DARPA Hard anymore, only DARPA Fast. The drone threat moves faster than two-year development cycles.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">10:08</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Counter-UAS agility requires rethinking the business model, not just the technology stack.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">13:00</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Government access restrictions have prevented war fighters from building the reps that matter most.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">14:00</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Risk tolerance in garrison should be higher than in combat, not lower. That cultural inversion is slowing adaptation.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">16:21</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Drone incidents aren't surprising because the threat is new. They're surprising because we've never practiced responding to them in the environments where they occur.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">35:00</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> World Cup preparation should focus on the asymmetric scenarios, not the ones every security team already has an SOP for.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">38:00</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Fluid multi-authority communications must be practiced, not assumed. Coordination failures in low-stakes drills become casualties in real events.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">44:19</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> The speed of adaptation is the shield. For government leaders, industry, and venture capital alike, that's the only durable competitive position.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent;">Resources Mentioned:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/brad-halsey-74109933" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Brad Halsey</a></p><p>http://linkedin.com/in/brad-halsey-74109933</p><p><br></p><p><a href="http://linkedin.com/company/building-momentum-llc" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Building Momentum</a> | LinkedIn</p><p>http://linkedin.com/company/building-momentum-llc</p><p><br></p><p><a href="http://buildmo.com" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Building Momentum</a> | Website</p><p>http://buildmo.com</p><p><br></p><p><a href="http://dau.edu" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Defense Acquisition University (DAU)</a></p><p>http://dau.edu</p><p><br></p><p><a href="http://q2impact.com" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Q2IMPACT</a></p><p>http://q2impact.com</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Thanks for listening to the “Impact Point” podcast. If you enjoyed the show, please leave us a 5-star review and subscribe to our channel so you don’t miss any future episodes. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The “Impact Point” podcast is brought to you by Q2IMPACT.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">#LeadershipDevelopment #ChangeManagement #AIGovernance</span></p>
March 9, 2026
Why Good Intentions Fail: The True Cost of Ignoring AM&E in Security Cooperation with Mick Crnkovich of Stratagem Consulting, LLC
<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Billions are spent on US security cooperation every year. </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mick-crnkovich/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Mick Crnkovich</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">, one of the most candid practitioners in the field, joins us to make the case for treating assessment, monitoring, and evaluation (AM&E) not as compliance overhead, but as the decision infrastructure that protects taxpayer investment and keeps security cooperation honest.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Key Takeaways:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">00:00 Introduction.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">01:16 AM&E was built to be a decision infrastructure, not paperwork.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">09:06 AM&E expertise does not exist inside the Department of Defense.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">12:17 A single vendor created consistency. Fragmentation broke it.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">16:55 DoD culture is the biggest obstacle to lasting AM&E progress.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">20:31 Effective AM&E integrates data, people, and culture as one system.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">25:18 Choosing the cheapest vendor produces garbage in, garbage out.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">28:33 Big primes are a mile wide and an inch deep. AM&E needs specialists.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">39:18 Rigorous AM&E aligns directly with this administration's efficiency priorities.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">48:25 No one inside the combatant commands was held accountable for AM&E outcomes.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">50:16 AI and ML must be integrated into SSCI proposals. The talent exists.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">53:21 AM&E professionals speak a language most DoD stakeholders do not understand.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">55:00 The best teams combine AM&E expertise with former security cooperation officers.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">01:09:48 The enterprise is at a restart point. Not from scratch, but a deliberate reset.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Resources Mentioned:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mick-crnkovich/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Mick Crnkovich</a></p><p>https://www.linkedin.com/in/mick-crnkovich/</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.q2impact.com" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Q2IMPACT</a></p><p>https://www.q2impact.com</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.dsca.mil/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA)</a></p><p>https://www.dsca.mil/</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://dscu.edu/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Defense Security Cooperation University (DSCU)</a></p><p>https://dscu.edu/</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/383" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">U.S. Code § 383 — NDAA 2017 AM&E of Programs and Activieties</a></p><p>https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/383</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://scip.dsca.mil/welcome/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">SCIP — Security Cooperation Information Portal</a></p><p>https://scip.dsca.mil/welcome/</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/588768/the-good-american-by-robert-d-kaplan/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony</a></p><p>https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/588768/the-good-american-by-robert-d-kaplan/</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Thanks for listening to the “Impact Point” podcast. If you enjoyed the show, please leave us a 5-star review and subscribe to our channel so you don’t miss any future episodes. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The Impact Point podcast is brought to you by Q2IMPACT.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">#LeadershipDevelopment #ChangeManagement #AIGovernance</span></p>
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