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

Steve Blank

In 1991 we went to war in Desert Storm to evict Iraq out of Kuwait. Everybody that comes into the space force will learn coding and adopt digital engineering standards as our as our standard for acquisition. First, one of the big things we’re doing is adopting digital engineering as our standard. Desert Storm and Space.

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The Impact of Community

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But then when I was eight or nine years old, the Gulf Warhead, I was born in Kuwait and security had lapsed, came together to rescue the country. I'm an engineer. And he said, he would always say the only way to create abundance in life is to help others without expecting anything in return. What is community?

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). In World War II the U.S.