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for Defense @ Stanford 2024 – Lessons Learned Presentations</a></h2> <div class="postinfo"> Posted on <span class="postdate">June 24, 2024</span> by steve blank </div> <div class="entry"> <p style="font-weight: 400;">We just finished our 9th annual <a href="http://h4d.stanford.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hacking for Defense class at Stanford.</a><a href="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="27586" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/h4d-logo/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?fit=2432%2C2400&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2432,2400" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="h4d logo" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?fit=300%2C296&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?fit=468%2C462&ssl=1" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-27586" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?resize=150%2C148&ssl=1" alt="" width="150" height="148" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?resize=150%2C148&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?resize=300%2C296&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?resize=1024%2C1011&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?resize=768%2C758&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?resize=1536%2C1516&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?resize=2048%2C2021&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?resize=1200%2C1184&ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/h4d-logo.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">What a year.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Hacking for Defense, now in 60 universities, has teams of students working to understand and help solve national security problems. At Stanford this quarter the 8 teams of 40 students collectively interviewed <strong>968</strong> beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products and developing a path to deployment.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">At the end of the quarter, each of the teams gave a final “Lessons Learned” presentation. Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” the Lessons Learned presentations tell the story of each team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery. For all of them it’s a roller coaster narrative describing what happens when you discover that everything you thought you knew on day one was wrong and how they eventually got it right.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s how they did it and what they delivered.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>New for 2024<br /> </strong>This year, in addition to the problems from the Defense Department and Intelligence Community we had two problems from the State Department and one from the FBI.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>These are “Wicked” Problems<br /> </strong>Wicked problems refer to really complex problems, ones with multiple moving parts, where the solution isn’t obvious and lacks a definitive formula. The types of problems our Hacking For Defense students work on fall into this category. They are often ambiguous. They start with a problem from a sponsor, and not only is the solution unclear but figuring out how to acquire and deploy it is also complex. Most often students find that in hindsight the problem was a symptom of a more interesting and complex problem – and that Acquistion of solutions in the Dept of Defense is unlike anything in the commercial world.</p> <p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-Matrix.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31009" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/h4d-matrix/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-Matrix.jpg?fit=612%2C516&ssl=1" data-orig-size="612,516" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="H4D Matrix" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-Matrix.jpg?fit=300%2C253&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-Matrix.jpg?fit=468%2C395&ssl=1" class="alignright wp-image-31009" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-Matrix.jpg?resize=228%2C192&ssl=1" alt="" width="228" height="192" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-Matrix.jpg?resize=300%2C253&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-Matrix.jpg?resize=150%2C126&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-Matrix.jpg?w=612&ssl=1 612w" sizes="(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px" /></a>And the stakeholders and institutions often have different relationships with each other – some are collaborative, some have pieces of the problem or solution, and others might have conflicting values and interests.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">The figure shows the types of problems Hacking for Defense students encounter, with the most common ones shaded.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Guest Speakers: Doug Beck – Defense Innovation Unit, Radha Plumb – CDAO. H.R. McMaster – former National Security Advisor and Condoleezza Rice – former Secretary of State<br /> </strong>Our final Lessons Learned presentations started with an introduction by <a href="https://www.diu.mil/team/doug-beck" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Doug Beck</a>, director of the <a href="https://www.diu.mil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Defense Innovation Unit</a> and <a href="https://www.ai.mil/bio_Plumb.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Radha Plumb</a>, DoD’s <a href="https://www.ai.mil/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chief of the Digital and AI Office</a>– reminding the students of the importance of Hacking for Defense and congratulating them on their contribution to national security.</p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._McMaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">H.R. McMaster</a> gave an inspiring talk. He reminded our students that 1) war is an extension of politics; 2) war is human; 3) war is uncertain; 4) war is a contest of wills.<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E4Qhmn_HlWBsThiC7sjTRNThxLBwqcbL/view?usp=sharing"><img data-recalc-dims="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31055" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/h-r-mcmaster-h4d2024/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H.R.-Mcmaster-H4D2024.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&ssl=1" data-orig-size="768,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.78","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 15 Pro","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1717523242","copyright":"","focal_length":"6.7649998656528","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.0086206896551724","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="H.R. Mcmaster H4D2024" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H.R.-Mcmaster-H4D2024.jpg?fit=225%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H.R.-Mcmaster-H4D2024.jpg?fit=468%2C624&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31055 size-medium" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H.R.-Mcmaster-H4D2024.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H.R.-Mcmaster-H4D2024.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1 225w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H.R.-Mcmaster-H4D2024.jpg?resize=113%2C150&ssl=1 113w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H.R.-Mcmaster-H4D2024.jpg?w=768&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></p> <p>If you can’t see the video of H.R. McMaster’s talk, click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E4Qhmn_HlWBsThiC7sjTRNThxLBwqcbL/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p> <p>The week prior to our final presentations the class heard inspirational remarks from Dr. <a href="https://www.hoover.org/profiles/condoleezza-rice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Condoleezza Rice,</a> former United States Secretary of State. Dr. Rice gave a sweeping overview of the prevailing threats to our national security and the importance of getting our best and brightest involved in public service.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">As a former Secretary of State, Dr. Rice was especially encouraged to see our two State Department sponsored teams this quarter. She left the students inspired to find ways to serve.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Lessons Learned Presentation Format<br /> </strong>For the final Lessons Learned presentation many of the eight teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem. This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks. While all the teams used the <a href="https://steveblank.com/2016/02/23/the-mission-model-canvas-an-adapted-business-model-canvas-for-mission-driven-organizations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mission Model Canvas</a>, (videos <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmera8mXqq-tOMvCpj_M64F-dbXvxkArs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique.</p> <p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Getting-out-of-the-building.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31057" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/getting-out-of-the-building-3/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Getting-out-of-the-building.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1024,768" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.78","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 15 Pro","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1717526936","copyright":"","focal_length":"6.7649998656528","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.012987012987013","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Getting out of the building" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Getting-out-of-the-building.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Getting-out-of-the-building.jpg?fit=468%2C351&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31057" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Getting-out-of-the-building.jpg?resize=468%2C351&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="351" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Getting-out-of-the-building.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Getting-out-of-the-building.jpg?resize=150%2C113&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Getting-out-of-the-building.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Getting-out-of-the-building.jpg?w=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Getting-out-of-the-building.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">By the end the class all the teams realized that the problem as given by the sponsor had morphed into something bigger, deeper and much more interesting.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">All the presentations are worth a watch.</p> <h3 style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Team House of Laws<br /> </strong><strong><em>Using LLMs to Simplify Government Decision Making</em></strong></h3> <p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dgbZvQBbI3U6LNR6yaY15lCUU3AiLCd8/view"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31010" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/screenshot-3/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws.jpg?fit=2848%2C1700&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2848,1700" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"Screenshot","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"Screenshot","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Screenshot" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>Screenshot</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws.jpg?fit=300%2C179&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws.jpg?fit=468%2C279&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31010 size-large" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws.jpg?resize=468%2C279&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="279" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws.jpg?resize=1024%2C611&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws.jpg?resize=300%2C179&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws.jpg?resize=150%2C90&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws.jpg?resize=768%2C458&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws.jpg?resize=1536%2C917&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws.jpg?resize=2048%2C1222&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">If you can’t see the Team House of Laws 2-minute video, click <u><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dgbZvQBbI3U6LNR6yaY15lCUU3AiLCd8/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></u></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y6kOLGscnC7iSNNS4HGv8uh3tvABf7dB/view?usp=sharing"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31012" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/house-of-laws-final-presentation/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=720%2C405&ssl=1" data-orig-size="720,405" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="House of Laws Final Presentation" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=468%2C263&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31012 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=468%2C263&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="263" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws-Final-Presentation.jpg?w=720&ssl=1 720w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/House-of-Laws-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=150%2C84&ssl=1 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a>If you can’t see the Team House of Laws slides, click <u><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y6kOLGscnC7iSNNS4HGv8uh3tvABf7dB/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></u></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Mission-Driven Entrepreneurship</strong><br /> This class is part of a bigger idea – Mission-Driven Entrepreneurship. Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas, we ask them to work on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense or non-profits/NGOs or the Oceans and Climate or for anything the students are passionate about. The trick is we use the same <a href="https://steveblank.com/2021/07/13/this-class-changed-the-way-entrepreneurship-is-taught/#:~:text=There%20were%20no%20classes%20on,Enterprises”%20at%20Harvard%20Business%20School." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and the same class structure – experiential, hands-on</a>– driven this time by a <a href="https://steveblank.com/2016/02/23/the-mission-model-canvas-an-adapted-business-model-canvas-for-mission-driven-organizations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>mission</em>-model</a> not a business model. (The National Science Foundation and the <a href="https://www.commonmission.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Common Mission Project</a> have helped promote the expansion of the methodology worldwide.)</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Mission-driven entrepreneurship is the answer to students who say, “I want to give back. I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while being challenged to solve some of the toughest problems.”</p> <h3 style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Caribbean Clean Climate<br /> </strong><strong><em>Helping</em> <em>Barbados Adopt Clean Energy</em></strong></h3> <p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-DFizYfv0EbKIvmf0gx5kCxoUhBBax-i/view?usp=sharing"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31019" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/screenshot-5/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/C3-Video-title.jpg?fit=2848%2C1700&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2848,1700" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"Screenshot","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"Screenshot","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Screenshot" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>Screenshot</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/C3-Video-title.jpg?fit=300%2C179&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/C3-Video-title.jpg?fit=468%2C279&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31019 size-large" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/C3-Video-title.jpg?resize=468%2C279&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="279" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/C3-Video-title.jpg?resize=1024%2C611&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/C3-Video-title.jpg?resize=300%2C179&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/C3-Video-title.jpg?resize=150%2C90&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/C3-Video-title.jpg?resize=768%2C458&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/C3-Video-title.jpg?resize=1536%2C917&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/C3-Video-title.jpg?resize=2048%2C1222&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/C3-Video-title.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/C3-Video-title.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">If you can’t see the Caribbean Clean Climate 2-minute video, click <u><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-DFizYfv0EbKIvmf0gx5kCxoUhBBax-i/view?usp=sharing">here</a></u></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lkmdLfL3EKRlRqAN7bqFjnXsgh7At8PL/view?usp=sharing"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31024" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/caribbeans-clean-climate-final-presentation/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Caribbeans-Clean-Climate-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=720%2C405&ssl=1" data-orig-size="720,405" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Caribbean’s Clean Climate – Final Presentation" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Caribbeans-Clean-Climate-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Caribbeans-Clean-Climate-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=468%2C263&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31024 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Caribbeans-Clean-Climate-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=468%2C263&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="263" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Caribbeans-Clean-Climate-Final-Presentation.jpg?w=720&ssl=1 720w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Caribbeans-Clean-Climate-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Caribbeans-Clean-Climate-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=150%2C84&ssl=1 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a>If you can’t see the Caribbean Clean Climate slides, click <u><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lkmdLfL3EKRlRqAN7bqFjnXsgh7At8PL/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></u></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>It Started With An Idea<br /> </strong>Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. Furthermore, there was no entrepreneurship class that combined experiential learning with the Lean methodology. Our goal was to teach both theory and practice.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">The same year we started the class, it was adopted by the National Science Foundation to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an <a href="https://www.sbir.gov/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SBIR grant</a>.) The NSF observed, “The class is the scientific method for entrepreneurship. Scientists understand hypothesis testing” and relabeled the class as the <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NSF I-Corps</a> (Innovation Corps). I-Corps became the standard for science commercialization for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Blank#cite_note-5">National Science Foundation</a>, National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy, to date training 3,051 teams and launching 1,300+ startups.</p> <h3 style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Team Protecting Children<br /> </strong><strong><em>Helping the FBI Acquire LLMs for Child Safety</em></strong></h3> <p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zz3Yv8I3zeu9THm6HQOgsVFWw8Ucl1Df/view"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31026" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/screenshot-6/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AI-Protecting-Chiildren.jpg?fit=2680%2C1860&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2680,1860" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"Screenshot","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"Screenshot","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Screenshot" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>Screenshot</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AI-Protecting-Chiildren.jpg?fit=300%2C208&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AI-Protecting-Chiildren.jpg?fit=468%2C325&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31026 size-large" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AI-Protecting-Chiildren.jpg?resize=468%2C325&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="325" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AI-Protecting-Chiildren.jpg?resize=1024%2C711&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AI-Protecting-Chiildren.jpg?resize=300%2C208&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AI-Protecting-Chiildren.jpg?resize=150%2C104&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AI-Protecting-Chiildren.jpg?resize=768%2C533&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AI-Protecting-Chiildren.jpg?resize=1536%2C1066&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AI-Protecting-Chiildren.jpg?resize=2048%2C1421&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AI-Protecting-Chiildren.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AI-Protecting-Chiildren.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">If you can’t see the Team Protecting Children<strong> </strong> 2-minute video, click <u><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zz3Yv8I3zeu9THm6HQOgsVFWw8Ucl1Df/view?usp=sharing">here</a></u></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tcoACe4PycyKgu1JqsmQSB6WsTISfbtO/view?usp=sharing"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31027" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/child-safety-final-presentation/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Child-Safety-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=720%2C405&ssl=1" data-orig-size="720,405" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Child Safety Final Presentation" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Child-Safety-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Child-Safety-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=468%2C263&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31027 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Child-Safety-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=468%2C263&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="263" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Child-Safety-Final-Presentation.jpg?w=720&ssl=1 720w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Child-Safety-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Child-Safety-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=150%2C84&ssl=1 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a>If you can’t see the Team Protecting Children<strong> </strong> slides, click <u><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tcoACe4PycyKgu1JqsmQSB6WsTISfbtO/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></u></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Origins Of Hacking For Defense<br /> </strong>In 2016, brainstorming with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/petenewell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete Newell</a> of BMNT and <a href="http://fsi.stanford.edu/people/joseph_felter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Felter</a> at Stanford, we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society was grappling with. As we thought about how we could get students engaged, we realized the same Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class would provide a framework to do so. That year we launched both <a href="http://h4d.stanford.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hacking for Defense</a> and <a href="http://web.stanford.edu/class/msande298/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hacking for Diplomacy</a> (with Professor <a href="https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/jeremy-weinstein">Jeremy Weinstein</a> and the State Department) at Stanford. The Department of Defense adopted and scaled Hacking for Defense across 60 universities while Hacking for Diplomacy is offered at<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span> <a href="https://www.jmu.edu/news/2024/03/01-diplomatic-community.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JMU</a> and <a href="https://www.commonmission.us/thought-leadership/rit-students-propose-solution-for-more-efficient-dos-data-analysis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RIT</a> –, sponsored by the Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security (see <a href="https://www.h4diplomacy.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>).</p> <h3 style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Team L Infinity<br /> </strong><strong><em>Improving Satellite Tasking</em></strong></h3> <p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1abzKDhqURLlZOM0_coEX6CsKxAK7UNWI/view"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31029" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/screenshot-7/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity.jpg?fit=2784%2C1664&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2784,1664" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"Screenshot","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"Screenshot","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Screenshot" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>Screenshot</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity.jpg?fit=300%2C179&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity.jpg?fit=468%2C280&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31029 size-large" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity.jpg?resize=468%2C280&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="280" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity.jpg?resize=1024%2C612&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity.jpg?resize=300%2C179&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity.jpg?resize=150%2C90&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity.jpg?resize=768%2C459&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity.jpg?resize=1536%2C918&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity.jpg?resize=2048%2C1224&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">If you can’t see the Team L∞ 2-minute video, click <u><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1abzKDhqURLlZOM0_coEX6CsKxAK7UNWI/view?usp=sharing">here</a></u></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Jeh-YyPwsAx2YHe7JGD-y0AO0QGJlIk/view?usp=sharing"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31030" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/l-infinity-final-presentation/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=720%2C405&ssl=1" data-orig-size="720,405" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="L Infinity Final Presentation" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=468%2C263&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31030 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=468%2C263&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="263" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity-Final-Presentation.jpg?w=720&ssl=1 720w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/L-Infinity-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=150%2C84&ssl=1 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a>If you can’t see the Team L∞ slides, click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Jeh-YyPwsAx2YHe7JGD-y0AO0QGJlIk/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class<br /> </strong>Our primary goal was to teach students Lean Innovation methods while they engaged in national public service. Today if college students want to give back to their country, they think of <a href="https://www.teachforamerica.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Teach for America</a>, the <a href="http://www.peacecorps.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peace Corps</a>, or <a href="https://americorps.gov" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AmeriCorps</a> or perhaps the <a href="https://www.usds.gov" target="_blank" rel="noopener">US Digital Service</a> or the <a href="https://18f.gsa.gov/">GSA’s 18F</a>. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence community or other government agencies.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">In the class we saw that students could learn about the nation’s threats and security challenges while working with innovators inside the DoD and Intelligence Community. At the same time the experience would introduce to the sponsors, who are innovators inside the Department of Defense (DOD) and Intelligence Community (IC), a methodology that could help them understand and better respond to rapidly evolving threats. We wanted to show that if we could get teams to <em>rapidly</em> discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and <em>only then</em> articulate the requirements to solve them, defense acquisition programs could operate at <em>speed and urgency</em> and deliver <em>timely</em> <em>and needed </em>solutions.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, we wanted to familiarize students with the military as a profession and help them better understand its expertise, and its proper role in society. We hoped it would also show our sponsors in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community that civilian students can make a meaningful contribution to problem understanding and rapid prototyping of solutions to real-world problems.</p> <h3 style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Team Centiment<br /> </strong><strong><em>Information Operations Optimized</em></strong></h3> <p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1el02GK0fmI2s1gFSJetJ84jym4b95TCd/view"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31034" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/screenshot-8/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Centiment.jpg?fit=876%2C930&ssl=1" data-orig-size="876,930" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"Screenshot","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"Screenshot","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Screenshot" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>Screenshot</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Centiment.jpg?fit=283%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Centiment.jpg?fit=468%2C497&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31034" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Centiment.jpg?resize=351%2C372&ssl=1" alt="" width="351" height="372" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Centiment.jpg?w=876&ssl=1 876w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Centiment.jpg?resize=283%2C300&ssl=1 283w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Centiment.jpg?resize=141%2C150&ssl=1 141w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Centiment.jpg?resize=768%2C815&ssl=1 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px" /></a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">If you can’t see the Team Centiment 2-minute video, click <u><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1el02GK0fmI2s1gFSJetJ84jym4b95TCd/view?usp=share_link">here</a></u></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13e7cdCbshwj4EZbzWmMjsBatES-yhOle/view?usp=sharing"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31032" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/centiment_-final-presentation-deck/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CENTIMENT_-Final-Presentation-Deck.jpg?fit=720%2C405&ssl=1" data-orig-size="720,405" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="CENTIMENT_ Final Presentation Deck" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CENTIMENT_-Final-Presentation-Deck.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CENTIMENT_-Final-Presentation-Deck.jpg?fit=468%2C263&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31032 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CENTIMENT_-Final-Presentation-Deck.jpg?resize=468%2C263&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="263" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CENTIMENT_-Final-Presentation-Deck.jpg?w=720&ssl=1 720w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CENTIMENT_-Final-Presentation-Deck.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CENTIMENT_-Final-Presentation-Deck.jpg?resize=150%2C84&ssl=1 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a>If you can’t see the Team Centiment slides, click <u><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13e7cdCbshwj4EZbzWmMjsBatES-yhOle/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></u></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Mission-Driven in 50 Universities and Continuing to Expand in Scope and Reach<br /> </strong>What started as a class is now a movement.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">From its beginning with our Stanford class, Hacking for Defense is now offered in over 50 universities in the U.S., as well as in the UK and Australia. Steve Weinstein started <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/education/first-hacking-for-impact-class-buzzes-around-the-mosquito-problem">Hacking for Impact</a> (Non-Profits) and <a href="https://hackingforlocal-oakland.weebly.com/">Hacking for Local</a> (Oakland) at U.C. Berkeley, and Hacking for Oceans at both <a href="http://h4oceans.ucsd.edu/">Scripps</a> and <a href="https://hacking4oceans.ucsc.edu/">UC Santa Cruz,</a> as well as <a href="https://h4cs.stanford.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hacking for Climate and Sustainability</a> at Stanford. Hacking for Education will start this fall at Stanford.</p> <h3 style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Team Guyana’s Green Growth<br /> <em>Water Management for Guyanese Farmers</em></strong></h3> <div id="attachment_31036" style="width: 478px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6FRQiCATeQ&t=4s"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-31036" data-attachment-id="31036" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/screenshot-9/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-title.jpg?fit=2624%2C1640&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2624,1640" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"Screenshot","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"Screenshot","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Screenshot" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>Screenshot</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-title.jpg?fit=300%2C188&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-title.jpg?fit=468%2C293&ssl=1" class="wp-image-31036 size-large" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-title.jpg?resize=468%2C293&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="293" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-title.jpg?resize=1024%2C640&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-title.jpg?resize=300%2C188&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-title.jpg?resize=150%2C94&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-title.jpg?resize=768%2C480&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-title.jpg?resize=1536%2C960&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-title.jpg?resize=2048%2C1280&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-title.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-title.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-31036" class="wp-caption-text">Screenshot</p></div> <p style="font-weight: 400;">If you can’t see the Team Guyana’s Green Growth<strong> </strong> 2-minute video, click <u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6FRQiCATeQ">here</a></u></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bkw7bK1gEjxeSnQSJZBxL5fL_6_hm70X/view?usp=sharing"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31038" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/guyana-green-growth-final-presentation/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-Green-Growth-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=720%2C405&ssl=1" data-orig-size="720,405" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Guyana Green Growth Final Presentation" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-Green-Growth-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-Green-Growth-Final-Presentation.jpg?fit=468%2C263&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31038 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-Green-Growth-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=468%2C263&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="263" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-Green-Growth-Final-Presentation.jpg?w=720&ssl=1 720w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-Green-Growth-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guyana-Green-Growth-Final-Presentation.jpg?resize=150%2C84&ssl=1 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a>If you can’t see the Team Guyana’s Green Growth<strong> </strong>slides, click <u><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bkw7bK1gEjxeSnQSJZBxL5fL_6_hm70X/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></u></p> <p><strong>Go-to-Market/Deployment Strategies<br /> </strong>The initial goal of the teams is to ensure they understand the problem. The next step is to see if they can find mission/solution fit (the DoD equivalent of commercial product/market fit.) But most importantly, the class teaches the teams about the difficult and complex path of getting a solution in the hands of a warfighter/beneficiary. Who writes the requirement? What’s an OTA? What’s color of money? What’s a Program Manager? Who owns the current contract? …</p> <h3 style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Team Dynamic Space Operations<br /> <em>Cubesats for Space Inspection Training</em></strong></h3> <div id="attachment_31041" style="width: 478px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeCBtR5kuq0"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-31041" data-attachment-id="31041" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/screenshot-10/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-space.jpg?fit=2624%2C1640&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2624,1640" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"Screenshot","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"Screenshot","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Screenshot" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>Screenshot</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-space.jpg?fit=300%2C188&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-space.jpg?fit=468%2C293&ssl=1" class="wp-image-31041 size-large" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-space.jpg?resize=468%2C293&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="293" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-space.jpg?resize=1024%2C640&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-space.jpg?resize=300%2C188&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-space.jpg?resize=150%2C94&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-space.jpg?resize=768%2C480&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-space.jpg?resize=1536%2C960&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-space.jpg?resize=2048%2C1280&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-space.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-space.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-31041" class="wp-caption-text">Screenshot</p></div> <p style="font-weight: 400;">If you can’t see the Team Dynamic Space Operations<strong> </strong> 2-minute video, click <u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeCBtR5kuq0">here</a></u></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PRNBW3VtMKOgVVVzDSEtI1xSLRJ3o50q/view?usp=sharing"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31042" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/dynamic-space-operations-team-final-presentation-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-Space-Operations-Team-Final-Presentation-1.jpg?fit=720%2C405&ssl=1" data-orig-size="720,405" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Dynamic Space Operations Team Final Presentation" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-Space-Operations-Team-Final-Presentation-1.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-Space-Operations-Team-Final-Presentation-1.jpg?fit=468%2C263&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31042 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-Space-Operations-Team-Final-Presentation-1.jpg?resize=468%2C263&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="263" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-Space-Operations-Team-Final-Presentation-1.jpg?w=720&ssl=1 720w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-Space-Operations-Team-Final-Presentation-1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dynamic-Space-Operations-Team-Final-Presentation-1.jpg?resize=150%2C84&ssl=1 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a>If you can’t see the Team Dynamic Space Operations<strong> </strong> slides, click <u><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PRNBW3VtMKOgVVVzDSEtI1xSLRJ3o50q/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></u></p> <h3 style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Team Spectra Labs<br /> </strong><strong><em>Providing</em> <em>real-time awareness of ..</em></strong></h3> <p>This team’s presentation is available upon request.</p> <p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T2FP3ks2rHi3gCe6vGof1SRog8ke_PIv/view?usp=sharing"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31091" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/spectra-labs-redacted-title/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Spectra-Labs-redacted-title.jpg?fit=720%2C405&ssl=1" data-orig-size="720,405" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Spectra Labs redacted title" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Spectra-Labs-redacted-title.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Spectra-Labs-redacted-title.jpg?fit=468%2C263&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-31091" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Spectra-Labs-redacted-title.jpg?resize=468%2C264&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="264" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Spectra-Labs-redacted-title.jpg?w=720&ssl=1 720w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Spectra-Labs-redacted-title.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Spectra-Labs-redacted-title.jpg?resize=150%2C84&ssl=1 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">If you can’t see the Spectra Labs slides, click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T2FP3ks2rHi3gCe6vGof1SRog8ke_PIv/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>here</u></a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>What’s Next For These Teams?<br /> </strong>When they graduate, the Stanford students on these teams have the pick of jobs in startups, companies, and consulting firms. House of Laws got accepted and has already started at Y-Combinator. L-Infinity, Dynamics Space Operations team (now Juno Astrodynamics,) and Spectra Labs are started work this week at <a href="https://www.h4xlabs.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">H4X Labs,</a> an accelerator focused on building dual-use companies that sell to both the government and commercial firms. Many of the teams will continue to work with their problem sponsor. Several will join the Stanford <a href="https://gordianknot.stanford.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation</a> which is focused on the intersection of policy, operational concepts, and technology.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">In our post class survey 86% of the students said that the class had impact on their immediate next steps in their career. Over 75% said it changed their opinion of working with the Department of Defense and other USG organizations.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>It Takes A Village<br /> </strong>While I authored this blog post, this class is a team project. The secret sauce of the success of Hacking for Defense at Stanford is the extraordinary group of dedicated volunteers supporting our students in so many critical ways.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">The teaching team consisted of myself and:</p> <ul style="font-weight: 400;"> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/petenewell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete Newell</a>, retired Army Colonel and ex Director of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, now CEO of <a href="http://www.bmnt.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BMNT</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/joseph_felter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Felter</a><u>,</u> retired Army Colonel; and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania; and William J. Perry Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.</li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sweinstein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steve Weinstein</a><u>,</u> partner at <a href="https://americasfrontier.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">America’s Frontier Fund</a>, 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Steve was CEO of <a href="https://movielabs.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MovieLabs</a>, the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios. He runs <a href="https://www.h4xlabs.com/">H4X Labs</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/jeff-decker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeff Decker</a><u>,</u> a Stanford researcher focusing on dual-use research. Jeff served in the U.S. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.</li> </ul> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-2024-Teaching-Team.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="31053" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2024/06/24/hacking-for-defense-stanford-2024-lessons-learned-presentations/h4d-2024-teaching-team/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-2024-Teaching-Team.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1024,768" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.78","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 15 Pro","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1717532867","copyright":"","focal_length":"6.7649998656528","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.025","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="H4D 2024 Teaching Team" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-2024-Teaching-Team.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-2024-Teaching-Team.jpg?fit=468%2C351&ssl=1" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31053" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-2024-Teaching-Team.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-2024-Teaching-Team.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-2024-Teaching-Team.jpg?resize=150%2C113&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-2024-Teaching-Team.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-2024-Teaching-Team.jpg?w=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/H4D-2024-Teaching-Team.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Our teaching assistants this year were Joel Johnson, Malika Aubakirova, Spencer Paul, Ethan Tiao, Evan Szablowski, and Josh Pickering. 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