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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

But cyber and space alone demand global integration. So that’s something we need help with, to provide us greater agility. We have to build into the systems for acquisition a method by which we can be far more agile. But the future is going to demand that we become more agile as it pertains to acquisition.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

That demands the right combination of tactical urgency and strategic patience, but there’s no question we have to move with alacrity on this right now. It was whatever you can do to get away from the classic DOD stovepipe way of doing business to a much more agile software approach. Warfighters Need to Be Demanding Customers.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. The problem is they don’t know how to be innovative in peacetime when innovation succumbs to the daily demands of execution. In peacetime innovation succumbs to the demands of execution.

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The Coming Chip Wars

Steve Blank

If negotiations fail, China may respond and escalate, via one of many agile strategic responses short of war, perhaps succeeding in coercing the foundry to stop making chips for American companies – turning the tables on the United States. The goal is to meet its local chip demand by 2030. This is a massive national effort.

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