Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The team made progress understanding the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) acquisitions process in slides 3-5 and mocked-up an MVP. They are starting to understand the beneficiaries in the Coast Guard; however, they are stymied in trying to find the right people to talk to about commercial data acquisition at the National Geospatial Agency.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The team made progress understanding the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) acquisitions process in slides 3-5 and mocked-up an MVP. They are starting to understand the beneficiaries in the Coast Guard; however, they are stymied in trying to find the right people to talk to about commercial data acquisition at the National Geospatial Agency.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We described the theory versus current practice of defense requirements, acquisition and budgeting in Slides 28-32. is still using a McNamara-era requirements and acquisition system designed by financial managers from Ford and imposed on the DOD in the early 1960s. And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.

Technology 228

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 228

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). Two Acquisition Paradigm Shifts Raj Shah, former head of the Defense Innovation Unit, pointed out that men and women in uniform have signed up to support national security with the equipment that they are given and must make do with what you give them. faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Technology 133

Technology Afghanistan Iraq Vietnam 133

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Although it has been difficult for various multinational telecom companies to do acquisition in Iraq, this industry has been enormously growing. It completed the AOL acquisition in 2015. It has been having various acquisitions in the past years where it acquired BellSouth in 2006 and DirectTV in mid-2015. And GTE Corp.

United Kingdom 113

United Kingdom United States China France 113

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with.

Silicon Valley 246

Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Community 246

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford.

Oakland 266

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF). They gave the problem to Colonel Bruce Jette, and 90 days and $750,000 later he had bypassed the existing Army acquisition system and bought existing robots from companies. After being ignored for decades, Boyd’s OODA Loop drove the U.S. In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Kuwait 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Community 120

Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Putting theory into practice, he went to Iraq in 2008 as part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, in support of a Joint Special Operations Task Force. He did a tour with the 75th Ranger Regiment as a platoon leader. In 2005, he returned to West Point (where he earned his undergrad degree) and ran the Combating Terrorism Center.

Washington 206

Washington Security Afghanistan Iraq 206

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford.

Southern California 163

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 163

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

Silicon Valley 182

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 182

Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

This week, in slide 3, the team further refined where ARCYBER sat in the org chart of who owned the problem within the DOD/IC and the acquisition process. Slides 15-17 diagrams their understanding of the product acquisition and deployment process. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

San Diego 135

San Diego Lean Iraq Acquisition 135

Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

This week, in slide 3, the team further refined where ARCYBER sat in the org chart of who owned the problem within the DOD/IC and the acquisition process. Slides 3-6, show their first-pass reconstruction of the sponsor organization and its procurement and acquisition process. The team really rose to the occasion.

San Diego 120

San Diego Lean Acquisition Iraq 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Iran has been a major source of regional destabilization, hostage-taking, and sponsorship of terrorism: Ansar Allah (Houthis) in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas/PIJ in Palestine, numerous Shia militias in Iraq (Kataib Hezbollah, Asaib Ahl al Haq, Badr Organization). They are capable of regional and international terror attacks.

Technical Review 275

Technical Review North Korea Iran Russia 275