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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

It calls for a revolution in thinking about how these technologies can be adopted and integrated into weapons and other defense platforms, and more importantly, how they can create new operational and organizational concepts that will change the way we fight. Military Applications and Operational Concepts in Space, Cyber, AI, and Autonomy.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. At times this means startups operate at speeds so fast they appear to be a blur to government agencies. America’s adversaries understand this. China is tightly integrating its defense establishment with startups, companies, and academia in “military-civilian fusion.”

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 2

Steve Blank

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Institutional inertia is a social problem.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 2 – Max Boot

Steve Blank

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Institutional inertia is a social problem.

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Staying Cyber Aware in a Crisis: Smart Tips for Nonprofit Boards

Board Effect

Criminals are always on the lookout for how they can make money by staying current with global trends and news in much the same way that legitimate corporations operate. There are a good number of hackers lurking in cyberspace that have the backing of their governments —namely in China, North Korea, and Russia.

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

Today, China, Russia, North Korea and other countries have locked their citizens behind a great firewall. What kind of skills will you need to operate in a world of real and fake manufactured data coming from friends? And when how businesses operated changed forever. The same is true for the Internet.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

North Korea. The class will also teach the islands of innovation in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community: how the innovation culture and mindset operate at speed. (During the Cold War we used asymmetric technologies in silicon and software to disrupt the Soviet Union’s lead in conventional weapons.)