About this episode

The episode discusses lessons learned from the Hacking for Defense class at Stanford, highlighting the impact of modern warfare and technology.

We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught Hacking for Defense, and the impact of asymmetric warfare, (drones, off-the-shelf technologies, etc.,) disruptive technologies (AI, commercial access to space) and a startup friendly DoW acquisition system – make it feel like a much different class than the previous classes.

People in this episode

Host: Steve Blank

Topics covered

• asymmetric warfare
• disruptive technologies
• Hacking for Defense
• AI
• commercial access to space
• DoW acquisition system

Keywords

• Hacking for Defense
• Stanford
• asymmetric warfare
• drones
• disruptive technologies
• AI
• DoW acquisition

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Organizations: Stanford

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