Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
What if we could turn economic complexity into strategic understanding?
In this episode, we sit down with David Rushing Dewhurst, Ph.D., a program manager in DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office, IPTO. Dewhurst works at the complex intersection of economics, data science, and national security to develop tools that help America navigate a world where economic competition has become a primary battlefield.
Dewhurst shares his unconventional path to the agency and takes us through two of his programs:
Anticipatory and Adaptive Anti-Money Laundering, A3ML: An innovative program that aims to eliminate global money laundering by treating it as an economic supply-and-demand problem, while preserving privacy through a decentralized approach.
National Security Economic Theory, NASCENT: A program focused on establishing a principled theoretical foundation for geoeconomics and building generic playbooks for economic statecraft.
Tune in to discover how Dewhurst is redefining the tools of economic statecraft to prevent pan-domain strategic surprise.
What if we could turn economic complexity into strategic understanding?
In this episode, we sit down with David Rushing Dewhurst, Ph.D., a program manager in DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office, IPTO. Dewhurst works at the complex intersection of economics, data science, and national security to develop tools that help America navigate a world where economic competition has become a primary battlefield.
Dewhurst shares his unconventional path to the agency and takes us through two of his programs:
Anticipatory and Adaptive Anti-Money Laundering, A3ML: An innovative program that aims to eliminate global money laundering by treating it as an economic supply-and-demand problem, while preserving privacy through a decentralized approach.
National Security Economic Theory, NASCENT: A program focused on establishing a principled theoretical foundation for geoeconomics and building generic playbooks for economic statecraft.
Tune in to discover how Dewhurst is redefining the tools of economic statecraft to prevent pan-domain strategic surprise.
