Bringing Them Home: Inside the Recovery Missions of Brig. Gen. John Lloyd
In this episode of Micro Journeys, host Daniel Marrujo sits down with Brigadier General John Lloyd for a thrilling discussion about his 40-year Army career. It begins in Lockport, New York, where 17-year-old Lloyd contacts an Army recruiter unbeknownst to his parents. At the time, he had no idea how impactful that one call would […]
Seeing Everything, Missing Nothing: AI-Powered Mapping of Unmapped Terrain
In this episode of Micro Journeys Inside Access, host Daniel Marrujo sits down with Lau Nørgaard, CTO of Sapient Perception, at African Lion 2026 to explore how the company’s large-area UAV ISR camera payloads are transforming how the U.S. and its allies map and understand unfamiliar terrain across the African continent. The conversation walks through […]
Building an Unhackable Internet, One Photon at a Time
Daniel Marrujo returns to Brookhaven National Laboratory for the second day of a two-day Micro Journeys deep dive, this time heading into the lab’s quantum networking facility with a panel of the world’s leading experts in the field. Associate Laboratory Director Gabriella Carini, staff scientists Soumyajit Mandal, Julián Martínez-Rincón & Paul Stankus, and research scientists […]
Small, Kinetic UAV Printed in the Battlefield
In this episode of Micro Journeys Inside Access, host Daniel Marrujo sits down with Benjamin Fowl, Head of Growth for Wild West Systems, at African Lion 2026 to examine a compact drone weapons platform designed to be small, fast, and difficult to detect or shoot down. The conversation covers the system’s platform-agnostic design, its field-tested […]
The Radiation Beam Needed for the Moon and Mars
In this episode of Micro Journeys, host Daniel Marrujo travels to the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) to explore one of the only facilities in the country capable of simulating deep-space radiation conditions on Earth. Marrujo sits down with Trevor Olsen, a nuclear engineer and physicist who has worked at the facility for over seven […]
How the CHIPS Act Is Reshaping the Future of Advanced Packaging
In this episode of Micro Journeys Inside Access, host Daniel Marrujo sits down with Jason Conrad, who leads Arizona State University’s Southwest Advanced Prototyping Hub (SWAP Hub), to examine how the United States is working to rebuild its advanced semiconductor packaging capabilities. The conversation covers Conrad’s path from a 23-year career in the semiconductor industry […]
Inside the Army’s “Wolf Pack” Munition Program
In this episode of Micro Journeys, host Daniel Marrujo sits down with Lieutenant Colonel Jim Lawson, product manager for the Long Range Precision Munition program, live at African Lion 2026. Lawson walks through the medium-range lethal variant of the Army’s launched effects ecosystem, a tube-launched, rocket-boosted munition designed to fold into a compact form factor […]
From Idea to Battlefield in Twelve Months
In this episode of Micro Journeys Inside Access, host Daniel Marrujo sits down with Benjamin Fowl, Head of Growth for Wild West Systems, at African Lion 2026 to examine a compact drone weapons platform designed to be small, fast, and difficult to detect or shoot down. The conversation covers the system’s platform-agnostic design, its field-tested […]
Out of the Lab, Onto the Battlefield
In this episode of Micro Journeys Inside Access, host Daniel Marrujo sits down with Lieutenant Colonel Ramon Leonguerrero, U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa | Advanced Capabilities Directorate at African Lion 2026 in Morocco, to unpack the command and control technology powering the largest exercise AFRICOM hosts on the African continent. The conversation traces […]
Captain Ronan Sefton on the Myth of Drone Autonomy
In this episode of Micro Journeys, host Daniel Marrujo sits down with Captain Ronan Sefton at the African Forces Summit to discuss the rapid evolution of unmanned systems on the modern battlefield. A military intelligence officer by trade, Sefton has spent the last several years focused almost entirely on drone warfare, drawing lessons directly from […]