Technology s-curves and the future of defense tech
Where some of the discussion about the stagnation hypothesis gets kind of confused and confusing is when you get back-and-forths that go like this: people […]
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Throw out the linear model of innovation for tinkering at the frontiers
One of the posts I wrote was a case study of the transistor. The transistor was invested at Bell Labs in the semiconductor research group. […]
Upcoming Army xTechSearch event
On the main stage, 10 team finalists from the xTechSearch 3 Accelerator competition will pitch and demo their technology solutions aimed at tackling the Army’s […]
Is AI/ML data too unique for the DoD to stick into one centralized data repository?
Not only is the data dirty, but it’s unique. The satellite derived data that NGA [National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency] is using is, while it might […]
How to accelerate artificial intelligence in the Defense Department
… the Defense Department needs a common platform for AI development and application. A development platform will bring data, AI developers, and the military into […]
Palantir’s Stephen Cohen on AI and big data in the 21st century
Potentially in quantum computing there are some answers to why classical computational algorithms might not be able to get certain human reasoning tasks done. Nonetheless, […]
Is the time right for the Pentagon to lean in on Blockchain?
… the Advancing Blockchain Act directs the Federal Trade Commission and the Commerce Secretary to collaboratively investigate the decentralized, distributed ledger technology over the next two […]
Army Research Lab investigates cloak of invisibility
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has taken an interest in research by the University of Missouri into crafting cloak-like structures that can steer mechanical […]
DoD systems hacked in 4 minutes by outsiders and the DevSecOps open-source effort to remedy it
The entire PlatformONE stack and entire DevSecOps stack is based on open source software. I think there were two different stories. Some companies saw open […]
Accelerating software development by orders of magnitude
While some of these programs are classified, others have been able to share their results. For instance, the United Platform is working to push cyber […]
Software tooling: The next technology high ground for interservice rivalry
… the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command Software Engineering Center is taking on the challenge with an ambitious initiative known as the Software Engineering Environment, or […]
New proposals for the military’s tech transfer problem
These two groups [military operators and lab technologists] have different cultures and values, and frequently speak different languages. To operators, risks are to be minimized […]
Elon Musk recommends reasoning from first principles
Well, I do think there’s a good framework for thinking. It is physics. You know, the sort of first-principles reasoning. Generally, I think there are […]
DARPA’s organization and approach to innovation
Below are the DARPA’s current technical offices: Biological Technologies Office (BTO) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Information Innovation Office (I2O) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) Strategic Technology […]
Thiel on how scientific progress became bureaucratized
Thiel argued for enabling riskier research grant-making via institutions such as the NIH, as well as abandoning the scientific staple of the double-blind trial and […]