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The Air Force Academy Gets Lean

Steve Blank

In 2007, I graduated United States Air Force Academy as a computer engineer and entered the Air Force’s acquisition corps , excited and confident about my ability to bring technology to bear for our airmen. Graduation day with classmate Joseph Helton (right), killed in action in Iraq in 2009. . ——-. Not That Long Ago.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

and the Soviet Union faced off with a nuclear deterrence policy called mutually assured destruction (aptly named MAD.) 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. The Cold War. In response the U.S.