After a flurry of major technological advancements in the 1940-1960s period, there was talk of a “technological plateau.” Proponents of this idea believed that most […]
I’ve been pretty impressed with the number of application of additive manufacturing in defense. Here are 20 cool things going on from a mostly organic […]
Here is a slice from the excellent Hermeus Podcast, with former Air Force pilot and general Robert Behler. He flew the SR-71 Blackbird, and provides […]
Here is Trae Stephens, partner at Founder’s Fund, talking with Vago Muradian on the Defense and Aerospace Podcast. We found that selling software was incredibly […]
Here is Mark Lewis giving an NDIA talk on Hypersonics 101, mentioning his expectations on unit cost. Watch the whole thing because it is interesting […]
Here’s an interesting article from Jeremiah Lowin, What is Negative Engineering? He gives an example where a company has a catastrophic failure, a flood of […]
John Schmitt starts his article: “The defining feature of the development US military policy is the tension that exists between the lessons of history and […]
In a recent HASC hearing on S&T, several congress members bombarded USD R&E Heidi Shyu with questions about Defense Innovation Unit. Rep. Seth Moulton, who […]
Here is Jason Weiss, the DoD’s first Chief Software Officer, talking with Jared Serbu on the On DoD podcast. Weiss recently left his post after […]
Here’s Mark Zuckerberg talking to Tim Ferriss about product development on virtual reality gear: … being able to just work on a project that’s a […]
The Department of Defense’s new Joint All-Domain Command and Control strategy is short on details and long on the kind of vague top-down direction that exemplifies […]
The Brits, not once but twice, the last time being in the Falklands, couldn’t hit anything with naval gunfire because they forgot to reverse the […]
Today the Navy has aircraft carriers, submarines, surface combatants, aircraft, and sensors under the sea and in space. Our plan to counter to China can […]
Nearly all academic researchers in the sciences rely on outside grants in order to pay salaries, buy their equipment, and run their experiments. Those grants […]
Here’s a very interesting story from Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Anduril, at the 2021 Reagan National Defense Forum. There was an event where we were […]
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