Episode Notes

He didn't plan to become a defense contractor. It started with a BP oil spill, a case of mistaken identity, and a one-way ticket to Bahrain.

Today, Nick D'Ambrosio is the CEO of NOMADICS, a national defense and geospatial intelligence firm that has worked on virtually every unmanned system in the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet.

In this episode of The Weird Canadian, Cody sits down with Nick to discuss the realities of building a multi-million-dollar defense firm from the ground up. They dive deep into the ethics of artificial intelligence, the geopolitical forces reshaping North America, and the digital literacy crisis that is quietly threatening the modern workforce.

In this episode, we cover:

• How Nick went from an ecologist to a Navy unmanned systems expert

• The truth about AI sentience and autonomous weapons

• Why traditional "boomer knowledge" is becoming irrelevant in the modern economy

• The reality of federal contracting and government infrastructure

• How to navigate a world that is changing faster than we can map

Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/taCzcNiUk2s

Connect with Nick D'Ambrosio:

Website: https://nomadics.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-m-dambrosio

Connect with Cody: