Why a Former Air Force Nuke Hunter Just Got Accepted Into the Werner Accelerator

Jorden Gershenson spent 8 years in the Air Force detecting nuclear tests from a basement full of seismometers. Now he’s building Aulendur Labs — a startup that wants to forecast everything from freight loads to geopolitical events using the same machine learning powering global weather models.In this episode we dig into Jorden’s path from Air Force technical application specialist to software engineer to startup founder, how he won a DoD SBIR for nuclear plume modeling, why he thinks the government never knows what it actually wants, and how Aulendur Labs just got accepted into the Werner Enterprises accelerator here in Omaha.Topics include AI forecasting, digital twins, defense vs commercial strategy, the Palantir and Anduril paradigm, and why Omaha could be the next defense tech hub.