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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 5 – AI and Machine Learning

Steve Blank

We just completed the fifth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

We just completed the fourth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. is now engaged in great power competition with both China and Russia. s primary great power competitor.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class – now part of our Stanford Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. The return of strategic competition between great powers became a centerpiece of the 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy.

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

Steve Blank

Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. The Government Can’t Act Like a Startup.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. These rules are explicitly coded into a program using a software language (Python, JavaScript, C#, Rust, …).

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

Steve Blank

We just held our sixteenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. leading a multi-billion dollar business with a broad range of products and services supporting defense, homeland security, aerospace, infrastructure protection, and customers around the world.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

20+ guest speakers on technology and its impact on national power – prior secretaries of defense and state, current and prior National Security council members, four-star generals who lead service branches. This class has four parts that were like most lecture classes in international policy: Weekly Readings – 5-10 articles/week.