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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. The offset strategy was smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth using silicon chips, electronics and computers that only the U.S. The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. Newell ran the U.S.

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