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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3

Steve Blank

faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). Advancements in these technologies will be driven by consumer demand and the potential for profit- not government directives. Hopefully the most successful of these initiatives will be broadly scaled across the department and federal government. faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Herding Cats – Using Lean to Work Together

Steve Blank

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. Today, his company BMNT does for government and commercial customers what the Rapid Equipping Force did for the U.S.

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