Steve Blank Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up - Business Inside

We have just concluded the third year of our technology, innovation class and great class of power competition, part of the Gordian Knot Center for Stanford National Security Innovation.

Joe Felter, Mike Brown and I taught class A:

Give our students an appreciation of challenges and opportunities for the United States in their lasting strategic competence with the People’s Republic of China, Russia and other rivals.
Offer Insights on How Commercial Technology (AI, Autonomy, Cyber, Quantum, Semiconductors, Access to Space, Biotech, Hypbersonics, and Others) Are Radically Changing How We Will Competition Across All The Elements of National, Economic, Financial, Financial, Financial, Financial, Financial, Financial, Financial Financial ,, Financial, Economic ,, intellectible, intellible, intellible, intellible, intellible, intellible, intellible, intelllaric, intellible, intellible, intellible, intellible, intellible, intelllaric, intellible, intelllaric, intelllaric, intellible, intellible, intellible, intellible, intellible, intellible Dyplicige, intellible, intellible. (Our influence and footprint on the world stage).
Students of Exosion to Experimental Learning about Political Questions. The students formed teams, left the classroom and talked to the interested parties and developed policy recommendations.

Why this class?
The recognition that the United States is dedicated to a long -term strategic competence with the Popular Republic of China and Russia became a centerpiece of the 2017 National Security Strategy and the 2018 National Defense Strategy. The 2021 Interim National Security Guidance and the Administration’s Recently Release 2022 National Security Strategy Make Clear That Chine ASSERTIVE AND IS THE ONL COMPETITOR POTENTIAX CAPABLE OF TECHNOLOGICAL POTERY, AND MIL Get Get Get Ac Delay Tuty’s Tuty’s Gazette tools of Tutgazed! Stable and open international system. And as we have seen in Ukraine, Russia is still determined to fight a brutal war to play a disruptive role in the world stage.

Prevail in this competition will require more than simply acquiring the fruits of this technological revolution; It will require a paradigm shift in thinking about how this technology can quickly integrate into new capacities and platforms to boost new operational and organizational concepts and strategies that change and optimize the way we compete.

Class organization
Readings, conferences and guest speakers explored how emerging commercial Technologies pose challenges and create opportunities for the United States in their strategic competence with great rivals of power with emphasis on the People’s Republic of China. We focus on the challenges created when government agencies of the United States, our federal research laboratories and government contractors no longer have exclusive access to these advanced technologies.

This course included everything that would expect from a Stanford postgraduate level class in the master’s degrees in international policies, invited conferences of current and previous experts/experts and written documents. However, what makes the class unique is that This is a experimental Policy class. The students formed small teams and embarked on a project of a quarter duration that took them out of the classroom for:

Identify a priority national security challenge, and then …
Validate the problem and propose a detailed solution proven against real interested parties in the national technology and security ecosystem.

The class was divided into three parts.

Part 1, week 1 to 4 covered theories of international relations that try to explain the dynamics of interstatal competition between powerful states, national security and national security strategies and policies of the United States that begin to our Speicy Speicy of Propius) Chinese Communist Party (PCC).

In parts 1 and 2 of the class, students had an individual mid -period project. They required them to write a 2,000 -words policy memorandum describing how an US competitor is using a specific technology to counteract the interests of the United States and a proposal on how the United States should respond.

Part 2, week 5 to 8, is immersed in commercial technologies: semiconductors, space, cybernetics, AI and automatic learning, high performance and biotechnology computing. Every week students had to read 5-10 articles (see class readings Gentleman.) And every week we had invited speakers in a great competence of power and technology and its impact on national power and conferences/discussion in class.

Guest speakers
In addition to the teaching team, the course was based on the experience and experience of invited teachers of the industry and government agencies of the United States to provide context and perspective on commercial Technologies and National Security.

The students had the privilege of listening to extraordinary guests with significant experience and credibility about a variety of issues related to the objectives of the course. The most prominent aspects of this year’s speakers include:

On national security and American exceptionalism: General Jim Mattis, the United States Marines (Retrial.), Former Secretary of Defense.

On China’s activities and efforts to compete with the United States: Deputy Advisor of National Security of Matt Pottinger, Elizabeth, China’s academic and former principal trade advisor for China, Tai Ming Cheung, author of the State Chine

On the policy of the United States: Congressman Mike Gallagher, president of the Chamber of Selects Representatives in China.

On innovation and national security: Chris Brose – Author of the Kill chain, Doug Beck – Director of the Defense Innovation Unit, Anja Manuel – Executive Director of the Aspen Strategy and Security Forum.

For Biotechnology: Ben Kirkrup – Senior Biologist US Navy, Ed You – FBI Special Agent Biological Contramedesures Unit, Deborah Rosenblum – ASTEst SEC or Defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs, professor of Joe Desimone – Professor.

For AI: Jared Dunnmon – Technical Director for AI in the Defense Innovation Unit, Lieutenant Gene. (RET) Jack Shanahan- Director, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Anshu Roy-Ceo Rhombus ai

For Cyber: Anne Neuberger – Cyber Deputy National Security Advisor

For semiconductors: Larry Diamond – Senior Felow at the Hoover institution

Significantly, students were able to listen to the Chinese perspective on the competence of the United States, China’s competition of Dr. Jia Qingguo, a member of the Permanent Committee of the Chinese Central Committee.

The class closed with a moving talk and called to the action of former National Security Advisor LTG RET HR McMaster.

In the week at Betse we had lectures of the teaching team followed by speakers who directed discussions about critical commercial technologies.

Team -based experimental project
The third part of the class was unique, a project based on the team of a quarter long. The students formed teams of 4-6 and selected a national security challenge that faces an organization or agency within the United States government. They developed hypothesis of how trade technologies can be used in new and creative ways to help the United States arouse their instruments of national power. And consisting with all our kinds of Gordian Knot Center, They left the classroom. And he interviewed more than 20 beneficiaries, political leaders and other key stakeholders who prove their hypotheses and propose solutions.

Hacking for Policy – Final presentations:
At the end of the quarter, the policy recommendations of each student team were summarized in a 10 -minute presentation. The presentation was the story of the team’s learning trip, describing where they started, where they ended and the key inflection points in their understanding of the problem. (A written 3000 words report continued to focus on his recommendations to address his chosen security challenge and describe how their solutions can be implemented with speed and urgency).

At the end of the class, all teams realized that the policy problem had selected had become something bigger, deeper and much more interesting.

Your policy presentations are below.

The class is so exhausting to teach as to take. We have an incredible set of teaching assistants.