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

Steve Blank

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. John Raymond , Chief of Space Operations, United States Space Force. He or she has to conduct operations today.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

We wanted to show that if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, defense acquisition programs could operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. If you can’t see the Neurosmart slides, click here.

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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 could recite requirements and concepts of operations from memory. Requirements and a concept of operations are presented at the first, the System Requirements Review. I was jetsetting to team meetings and conferences across the country.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. Jeff Decker a Stanford social science researcher. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3

Steve Blank

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. faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. You mass fire power on objectives.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

As they proceeded with customer discovery, the team found that the majority of the operators who would wear these sensors were ambivalent about the introduction of a vitals monitoring platform, but were much more excited about solving geolocation problems. Their key take-away was that they would have to decide which beneficiary to focus on.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

As they proceeded with customer discovery, the team found that the majority of the operators who would wear these sensors were ambivalent about the introduction of a vitals monitoring platform, but were much more excited about solving geolocation problems. Their key take-away was that they would have to decide which beneficiary to focus on.