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

Steve Blank

We started developing capabilities as part of that great power competition with the Soviet Union. In 1991 we went to war in Desert Storm to evict Iraq out of Kuwait. There are five things we have to do to set up Space Force: Developing our own people is a big piece of what we’re focusing on. Desert Storm and Space.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. This all-star team of 4 undergraduates and a JD/MBA developed new ways to provide logistical support to maritime forces in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3

Steve Blank

Their ballistic missile program not only threatens their neighbors, but their development of long-range ICBMs puts the entire continental United States in range of their nuclear weapons. Slides 20-22. North Korea has robust and expanding nuclear weapons program with 10-40 nuclear weapons.

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The Air Force Academy Gets Lean

Steve Blank

Graduation day with classmate Joseph Helton (right), killed in action in Iraq in 2009. I returned to the Air Force Academy as an instructor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, intent on spreading the gospel of Customer Development and Lean. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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The Innovation Insurgency Gets Educated: Hacking for Defense, Diplomacy, Development, …

Steve Blank

The class is for: educators who want to learn how to teach a Hacking for Defense, Diplomacy, Development, etc. As soon as we followed it up with Hacking for Diplomacy we got asked, “Will this work at USAID with Hacking for Development?” or “How about a NASA or the NRO class with Hacking for Space as the topic?”

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Hacking for Conservation and Development at Duke followed. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done

Steve Blank

Instead, developing a new doctrine to deal with these new issues is fraught with disagreements, differing objectives, and incumbents who defend the status quo. In Iraq and Afghanistan innovative crisis-driven organizations appeared, such as the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force.

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