Steve Blank
MAY 17, 2022
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.
Steve Blank
APRIL 6, 2009
Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. These would be the heart of ESL’s business. But this new strategy was more than making the bombs smarter.
Steve Blank
MARCH 28, 2009
Just to rank how difficult it was to protect a B-52 in a dense defensive radar environment, our current B-2 stealth bomber has a radar signature of about an aluminum marble, while the B-52 designed in 1950 has the radar signature of a 170-foot sphere. It was like trying to fly a whale through a fish tank and not get noticed.
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