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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

government reengineered its approach to building weapons. In 1950, government support of basic science research in U.S. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF). By the end of 2007, the REF had delivered more than 550 types of equipment and more than 75,000 individual items. In World War II the U.S.