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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 5 – Chris Brose

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Changing Acquisition. However, they won’t create a new commercial ecosystem if they continue to dole out small SBIR account grants and million-dollar OTA’s (door prizes for showing up) while the same five national defense contractors they’ve been paying for the past three decades still get the billion-dollar programs.

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100 Startups Join Forces with Air Force Stakeholders at Inaugural Spark Collider Event

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

SBIR Phase I companies together with relevant Air Force and venture capital stakeholders. What does SBIR Phase I mean, exactly? At Spark Collider, there were 100 companies present that received an initial award from the Department of Defense (DoD)— which denotes them as Phase 1 SBIR Awardees.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

The same year we started the class, it was adopted by the National Science Foundation to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.) The NSF observed, “The class is the scientific method for entrepreneurship.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

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. All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

The same year we started the class, it was adopted by the National Science Foundation to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.) The NSF observed, “The class is the scientific method for entrepreneurship.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1 – Ash Carter

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. All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs.

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Accepting A Non-Dilutive Government Grant? 5 Surprising Mistakes To Avoid

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2019

According to Upcounsel , typical non-dilutive grants include research grants, translational grants, and SBIR/STTR program contracts. Your time sheets are a daily task that need to be completed in full, to specific standards according to the Federal Acquisition Regulations. Are you pursuing a non-dilutive government grant or contract?

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The same year we started the class, it was adopted by the National Science Foundation to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.) The NSF observed, “The class is the scientific method for entrepreneurship.

Oakland

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Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

While the DoD Office of Inspector General is responsible for these financial audits of trillions of dollars of assets and liabilities, the Defense Contract Audit Agency is responsible for auditing the hundreds of billions of dollars of acquisition contracts. They have the same issues.). challenges in finance, auditing and data management.

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Office of Naval Research (ONR) Goes Lean

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Rich realized that while the Department of Defense DoD spends a lot of money and has lots of requirements and acquisition processes, they don’t work well with a rapid innovation ecosystem. He’s responsible for science and programs for surface ships, submarines, and undersea weapons with an annual budget of over $300 million per year.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We’ve started to adjust our acquisition approach. And the departments have put out some very useful new guidance on how to approach software acquisition in a very different way than hardware acquisition. But the real problem is that almost everybody hits the famous “valley of death.”

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

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.

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The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

As medical grade data acquisition becomes possible, continuous or real time transmission will store and report baseline data on tens of millions of “healthies” that will be vital in training the algorithms and eventually predicting disease earlier. Much like the NIH SBIR program.) The Future.

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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

Reorganize DoD Acquisition and Sustainment to create and buy from new 21st century arsenals – new shipyards, drone manufacturers, etc. Today, the average Department of Defense major acquisition program takes anywhere from nine to 26 years to get a weapon in the hands of a warfighter. ” Acquire at Speed.

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Office of Naval Research (ONR) Goes Lean

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

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The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

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