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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

In our opening lesson , Ex-Secretary of Defense Ash Carter shared insights and experiences from his extensive and impactful career in DoD that included tours as Undersecretary for Acquisitions, Technology and Logistics, Deputy Secretary, and Defense Secretary. Today the U.S.

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

Steve Blank

Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. Existing contractors have learned how to master the arcane defense acquisition system and live with the slow decision-making and payment processes. America’s adversaries understand this.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 2

Steve Blank

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. And we need to do all of this with a finite defense budget, most of which is being spent on legacy systems in 88 major defense acquisition programs.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 2 – Max Boot

Steve Blank

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. And we need to do all of this with a finite defense budget, most of which is being spent on legacy systems in 88 major defense acquisition programs.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

North Korea. All while we’re still writing a Request for a Proposal from within the US Government procurement and acquisition channels. These acquisition and procurement “silos” of excellence are virtually impenetrable by new ideas and requirements. Yet in the last decade the U.S. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea.

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Top 5 Fastest - Growing Freelance Platforms in 2020

Transformify

The entire invoicing and payments process is managed by the freelance platform which includes payment transfers to any bank account all over the world (although there are some restricted countries like Cuba, North Korea, Iran, etc.). Are you looking to hire talented freelancers and create jobs for social good?

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4

Steve Blank

The NDS observed that we not only faced non-nation states (terror organizations,) but going forward we have to plan for 2+3 adversaries (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and the non-nations states.) Next, we introduced the National Defense Strategy (NDS) which describes how the military supports the overall National strategy.

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