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Lecture 3 - Technology, innovation and Modern War
1. Technology, Innovation,
and Modern War
INTLPOL 340; MS&E 296
Steve Blank, Joe Felter, Raj Shah
Lesson 3:Sourcing, Acquiring and
Deploying Technology for Modern War
2. Agenda
• Class Logistics
• White Board Session
• Lecture: “Sourcing, Acquiring and Deploying Technology
for Modern War”
• Discussion
• Lesson 4 - Preview “US Defense Strategies and Military
Plans in an Era of Great Power Competition”
17. ● Innovations that will shape future conflicts will
increasingly occur in the commercial technology base.
● Advancements in these technologies will be driven by
consumer demand and the potential for profit- not
government directives.
● Requirements are not known years ahead of time
18. What we could make you experts on if we had 30
years instead of 20 minutes
21. Barriers to reform
• Congress
• Service culture
• Workforce incentives
• Traditional industrial base
• Process
• Requirements
• Acquisitions
• Imagination
27. For more see: Haggerty, A. and Wood, R. The P-51 Mustang: A Case Study in Defense Acquisition. October 2010. Defense Acquisition University (www.dau.mil)
34. Questions to discuss:
• What would it take to awaken the American public?
• What will your generation’s Sputnik Moment be?
• What frameworks could we use to speculate on how
the future of war will look?
• How can validate our speculations?