The setting
's is a set of software tools for defense that covers simulation, hardware and software integration, and mission control. It helps teams build, test and deploy autonomous systems that work together.
DPG requirements need reusable evidence without turning campaign results into automatic roadmap decisions.
The evidence checker must expose weak claims while preserving the PM's authority to interpret mission context.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I keep getting asked which campaign result drove this requirement, and I’m hunting through old reviews.”
Vasco Conti · Autonomy Program Manager · a character in this brief
Sponsors a multi-vendor DPG effort and needs requirements that survive test organization scrutiny.
What is at stake
DPG spec drafts leave mission assumptions and campaign evidence disconnected. You must decide whether AI flags only unsupported claims or also missing mission edge cases.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- repeatable requirements vs program-specific mission context
- structured campaign records vs varied discovery evidence
- shared Axion Sim components vs PM drafting flow
- flag precision vs coverage of missing edge cases
Why Applied Intuition
Axion Sim campaign evidence determines whether Digital Proving Grounds become repeatable infrastructure instead of program-specific delivery work.
Written with these in mind
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Where the organization context comes fromThe postings this brief was written from, and the reporting read before it.
The organization context comes from public information. The situation and characters are written for the brief.
Job postings it was written from
Public descriptions of the work at Applied Intuition. They are listed as sources, not as openings. The lines under a posting are its own words, where it meets this brief.
- Product Manager - Digital Proving Grounds (opens in a new tab)
- As the Product Manager for Digital Proving Grounds, you will own the product strategy, roadmap, and requirements for DPGs and Axion Sim.
- Applied Intuition's Digital Proving Grounds (DPGs) give the Department of War a vendor-neutral place to test autonomous systems from many companies together, against a real mission, before they reach the field.
- Product Manager - DefenseOS (opens in a new tab)
- Lead customer and user discovery directly with Navy program offices, operators, and crews to translate operational needs, acquisition requirements, and field constraints into a prioritized product roadmap.
- As a Product Manager for DefenseOS, you will own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a defense operating system derived directly from Applied Intuition's commercial automotive VehicleOS product, as the product peer to a director-level engineering lead.
- Product Manager - Drone Stack (opens in a new tab)
- You'll conduct primary research with military operators in the US and abroad, translate what you learn into product strategy, and work with a strong engineering team to ship products that give warfighters a decisive edge.
- Define the roadmap that transitions the team from program-driven deliveries to a scalable, multi-customer product line.
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.
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The same setting, from another role
Each is set around Applied Intuition’s Axion, written for a different role. They’re separate briefs, not the same scenario.
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In each of these, as in this one, the aim is to turn confusing, fragmented technical systems into something the people relying on them can understand and trust.
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