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Kevin Landtroop is a leader and entrepreneur with 20+ years of National Security experience. Through interrelated business, academic, and non-profit efforts, Kevin helps industrial-era systems find, validate, and integrate emerging technology at the scale and speed of relevance. Having founded, designed, and executed programs connecting startups, DoDX, VC, academic research, and defense industry, including the Center for Defense Innovation at Capital Factory and the Texas Defense Innovation Forum, Kevin has emerged as a plankholder for the national security innovation ecosystem centered in Austin Texas (ATX).
Kevin currently leads Growth and Partnerships at SBIR Advisors, a technology consultancy helping startups understand national security use cases, access R&D and program customers, and scale with capital and partners. Kevin also teaches Hacking For Defense at The University of Texas at Austin and lectures widely on innovation for national security.
A founding moment for DoDX came in Austin in early 2018. Kevin began consulting with emerging tech startups, helping them develop mission applications for commercial technologies and win R&D contracts. Kevin founded the Texas Defense Innovation Forum to scale this effort and bring more educational resources and meaningful connections for the assembling mass of dual-use tech startups. As Vice President of Defense at Capital Factory, Kevin helped launch the Center for Defense Innovation and designed programs such as Defense Academy and SBIR Accelerator. Kevin left Capital Factory to help launch SGS, the DoD-focused spinout of applied Artificial Intelligence powerhouse SparkCognition.
Kevin holds a B.S. from West Point (1998), a Juris Doctor (JD) from the University of Texas School of Law (2005), and a Master of Laws (LL.M) from the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School (2010) (concentration in National Security and government contracts).
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