Thursday Future 5 Spotlight: Michael Gutierrez

	Michael Gutierrez

Each year, AOC recognizes five young professionals as the year’s "Future 5" – individuals who actively innovate and strive for excellence as they support their respective organizations and build their EMSO careers. In each issue of the Show Daily, we will spotlight one of this year's Future 5 and their career goal in their own words.

Today, we recognize Michael Gutierrez, Software Engineer, Palantir Technologies, Inc.

I envision my career in the EMS/EW/IO industry to be defined by my role in building at least one successful EW-focused technology company and my contributions to individuals and companies pursuing work in the national security interest. To me, it is important to educate young Americans about the reality of national security and open the doors for the best and brightest talent in America to lend their talents to defense technologies. To foster an environment to encourage solving difficult problems within defense, I aim to evolve my community efforts into higher impact channels that more deeply connect builders with the personnel and channels through which they can best equip the warfighter with their capabilities. As a means to help ensure that the United States captures and maintains spectrum supremacy, I would like to commit the efforts of an EW company to developing software-defined systems that unlock new paradigms for electronic attack, defend, and support. My experiences working with directed energy and sensor data platforms showed how quickly spectrum warfighting is evolving. And through listening to the goals, challenges, and needs of various operators in the electromagnetic domain, I believe there lies great opportunities to more intently leverage software and algorithm innovations to assemble complex systems that are dramatically more capable than the sum of their parts. To that end, I have begun by contributing to the incubation of a startup company focused on new sense platforms for improved spectrum awareness as well as large-scale electronic support software at Palantir.