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

Steve Blank

Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. America’s adversaries understand this.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 12 –The Space Force– General John Raymond

Steve Blank

Some of the readings for this week included: CRS Report on Space Force , Summary of the Defense Space Strategy , Space Force’s Capstone Doctrine “Space Power” , State of the Space Industrial Base 2020 , Space as a Warfighting Domain , Russia gears up for electronic warfare in space , Chief of Space Operations Planning Guidance.

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Innovation at Speed – when you have 2 million employees

Steve Blank

If you read these quotes, you’d think they were from a CEO who just took over a company facing disruption from agile startups and a changing environment. Instead the focus is on global and rapid maneuver capabilities of smaller, dispersed units to “increase agility, speed, and resiliency. And you’d be right. Since 9/11 the U.S.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, science and engineering at both Stanford and U.C. Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. Seeing Is Believing.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Steve Blank

The class is joint listed in Stanford’s International Policy department as well as in the Engineering School, in the department of Management Science and Engineering. This was our first step in fostering a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21st century. — Why This Course?

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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine. Reorganize DoD Research and Engineering to allocate its budget and resources equally between traditional sources of innovation and new commercial sources of innovation.

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

Steve Blank

It Will Be Harder Than the Pentagon Thinks , Considering Military Culture and Values When Adopting AI, Swarms of Mass Destruction , Joby Aviation raises $590 million led by Toyota to launch an electric air taxi service , Linking combat veterans and Valley engineers. See how they can inform the new concepts and vice versa.