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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 5 – AI and Machine Learning

Steve Blank

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. is dependent on TSMC , located in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China. Gamechanger uses AI to tackle a problem only a government could create. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Over this course you’ve heard from the leading voices across the military, government, and industry issue a call to action. communication networks, then identify how China might exploit these weaknesses differently during the political coercion of Taiwan in the near-term vs open conflict in the long-term.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

government agencies, our federal research labs, and government contractors no longer have exclusive access to these advanced technologies. Government agencies to provide context and perspective on commercial technologies and national security. ” Team 2: Networks. We focused on the challenges created when U.S.

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The Coming Chip Wars

Steve Blank

The United States just did this to China by limiting Huawei’s ability to outsource its in-house chip designs for manufacture by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a Taiwanese chip foundry. The committee found that Huawei could not or would not explain its relationship with the Chinese government and did not comply with U.S.

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When National Security Falls Between the Cracks

Steve Blank

government is ill-equipped to deal with the growing number of national security challenges that exist at the intersection of commercial and defense technology. Yet it remains unclear who in the government now sets policy for — or has final say over — issues that cross the boundaries between academia, defense, commerce, and diplomacy.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Neural networks make up the backbone of deep learning. They’d steamroll everyone.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber

Steve Blank

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. dependence on TSMC in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s