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Starlink, Ukraine, and the challenges of a market economy going to war

October 20, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

Around 20,000 Starlink satellite units have been donated to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February, playing an important role in battlefield communication for Kyiv’s […]

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DARPA’s Tim Grayson talks about a federated approach to interoperability, JADC2

September 21, 2021 Eric Lofgren 4

I like to say that interoperability goes up and down the stack. A lot of the work, especially particularly in Dave’s office [Chief Data Officer] […]

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Production can be 1,000% harder than design, says Elon Musk

March 16, 2020 Eric Lofgren 4

Designing the production system of a new product is at least an order of magnitude or two orders of magnitude harder than designing to initial […]

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