Writing
Insights
Notes from inside real engagements on AI governance, U.S. banking regulation, digital assets, and the fractional-executive work that sits between them.
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April 24, 2026 · Virtova
AI governance for U.S. banks, after the FDIC years
An operator's view of AI governance in U.S. banking from someone who built the FDIC's first innovation division — what the rulebook actually asks of banks in 2026, and what to do between now and the next exam cycle.
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April 24, 2026 · Virtova
Cyber audit in the neural-net era: a strategy note
Why human-only cyber audit, built on deterministic decision trees, cannot survive AI systems that generate new workflows a million times a second, and what audit has to become before it can be trusted again.
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April 15, 2026 · Virtova
What a fractional Chief AI Officer actually does
The fractional CAIO role has outgrown the consulting-jargon phase. Here is what the job looks like inside a real engagement — and what it doesn't.
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April 15, 2026 · Virtova
NIST AI RMF in practice: a regulated-industry playbook
How to operationalize the NIST AI Risk Management Framework in a regulated enterprise — and why treating it as a checklist is the wrong instinct.
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Also by Sultan, newest first
From the Substacks.
Pulled from sultanmeghji.substack.com and substack.frontierfoundry.com, ordered by post date.
- #1 · Frontier Foundry Substack July 9, 2026
Sovereign AI's Missing Pieces
The Palantir–NVIDIA Deal Proves the Sovereign AI Thesis. Here's What It Misses.
♥ 27 ↻ 1 restacks 291 words - #2 · Frontier Foundry Substack July 7, 2026
Sovereignty Theater
The AI sovereignty wars have begun. Almost everyone is measuring the wrong thing.
♥ 22 ↻ 1 restacks 1,342 words - #3 · Frontier Foundry Substack April 20, 2026
What I Learned at the White House Lunar Interoperability Forum
♥ 0 ↻ 0 restacks 744 words - #4 · Frontier Foundry Substack April 17, 2026
Value in the Time of LLMs
Throwback Thursday: While this was released earlier this year, given the growth of our audience and the topics relevance, we thought it would be a good idea to bring it back from the archives!
♥ 0 ↻ 0 restacks 1,028 words - #5 · Frontier Foundry Substack April 17, 2026
Reserve Capacity and the Emerging Competition Over Batteries
Throwback Thursday: While this was released in 2023, given the growth of our audience and the topics relevance, we thought it would be a good idea to bring it back from the archives!
♥ 0 ↻ 0 restacks 1,826 words - #6 · Frontier Foundry Substack April 17, 2026
Balancing Innovation and Oversight in the Technological Era: The AI Governance Conundrum
♥ 0 ↻ 0 restacks 1,373 words - #7 · Frontier Foundry Substack April 15, 2026
You Don't Need the GPUs They're Selling You
How an AI Infrastructure That Wastes Most of What it Computes Got Built
♥ 33 ↻ 0 restacks 5,011 words - #8 · Frontier Foundry Substack March 4, 2026
AI Giants – Complete Series Directory
A technical and financial review of five of the biggest artificial intelligence companies
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Policy analysis
At CSIS.
Sultan's analysis for the Economic Security and Technology Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he is a Senior Technical Expert (Non-resident).
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September 2026 · CSIS
Is the U.S. Banking System Ready for a Post-Quantum Future?
The federal government gave itself a 2030–2031 deadline to migrate off cryptography a quantum computer would break, then left the banking system it supervises on an advisory timetable — with no supervisor collecting readiness data consistently. Covers the "harvest now, decrypt later" threat model, what migration actually takes, Y2K as a case study, and four steps to prepare U.S. banking for the transition.
National security
On The SCIF.
Sultan's contributions to The SCIF, the blog of the National Security Institute at George Mason University, where he is a Fellow.
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2025 · The SCIF
NSI Experts Weigh In: The White House's 2025 National Security Strategy
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2024 · The SCIF
NSI Experts in the News — All Things National Security