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Technology, Innovation and Modern War – Class 6 – Will Roper

Steve Blank

Here’s what Will had to say: Competition with China. I view the competition with China as one of the seminal challenges that we’re going to face in this century. The Pentagon needs to be fast and agile. You need to be exceptionally fast and agile. That radars and stealth and antennas and radios and materials.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

The downside is that, unlike past DoD technology development – where the DoD leads it, can control it, and has the most advanced technology (like stealth and electronic warfare), in most cases the DoD will not have the most advanced algorithms or models. The analogy for AI is closer to microelectronics than it is EW. Carpe Diem.

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

Steve Blank

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

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