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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

During World War II the United States did something its adversaries did not; it enlisted professors and graduate students as civilians in 105 colleges and universities to build advanced weapon systems — nuclear weapons, radar, etc. In some agencies, large contractors seem to “own” sections, offices, organizations, or programs.

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DataRails Hires David Rosenberg as New VP of Customer Success

The Startup Magazine

Yet it can be intimidating and expensive to train staff to use a new program. DataRails allows companies to manage their data in Excel, operating as a front end to a cloud database , which makes it far more agile and easier to create accurate models. billion for businesses in the United States this year.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 12 –The Space Force– General John Raymond

Steve Blank

Some of the readings for this week included: CRS Report on Space Force , Summary of the Defense Space Strategy , Space Force’s Capstone Doctrine “Space Power” , State of the Space Industrial Base 2020 , Space as a Warfighting Domain , Russia gears up for electronic warfare in space , Chief of Space Operations Planning Guidance.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord

Steve Blank

Some of the readings for this week included How the DOD Acquires Weapons Systems , The Planning, Programming and Budgeting Process , Acquisition Reform in the NDAA , Defense Primer on DOD Contractors , and on the Defense Industrial Base. The United States is reliant on a global supply chain for our goods, systems and services.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. The pundits say the American dream is dead and this next decade will see the further decline and fall of the West and in particular of the United States. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

That said, there are also problems when you look around the world, whether it’s the next pandemic or climate change or Non-Proliferation where if the United States and China don’t figure out how to cooperate with one another we will both be in deep trouble. It’s given rise to a narrative of US decline.