Lecture 7 - Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition - Space

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Technology, Innovation, and Great
Power Competition
INTLPOL 340; MS&E 296
Steve Blank, Joe Felter, Raj Shah
Lecture #7: Sp...

Agenda
• Logistics
• Group Project - Pivoting to Solutions
• Great Power Competition in Space

Midterm Memo
• Reminder: Due Tomorrow (Tuesday @ Midnight PST)
• Follow the prompt PDF as uploaded on Canvas
Reach out to ...

Group Projects

Group Project
• Problem Statement Review and Feedback
• 5 minutes per group
• Blunt and direct feedback
• “Socratic method...

Timeframe: Now
Group Project: Narrow the Problem Definition
• By Now Your Team Has Lots of Data
• From the beneficiaries, ...

Timeframe: Now
• What would a minimum viable
product look like?
• Physical, Software, white paper, policy,
change in regul...

Team 1 - AVCI
Andy / Josh / Leo / Sophia

The Evolution of the Problem Statement
In order to maintain military supremacy over China and other nations the U.S. needs...

Key Insights
● History of AVCI 1.0
● NDAA Authorities
○ 2002 Section 8150
○ 2018 Section 1711
○ 2019 Section 230
● Meeting...

Congress
Army Venture Capital
Investment Corp.
(VCIC)
“OnPoint Technologies”
MILCOM Venture
Partners / Arsenal
Venture Par...

SECDEF
Asst. Sec. Army
Acquisition, Logistics
and Technology
ASA (ALT)
Secretary of the
Army
Army Chief of
Staff
Congress
...

Team 2 - Conflicted Capital
Angela / Connor / Megan / Zac

Week 7 - “Conflicted Capital” Status Report
Revised Problem Statement: Chinese adversarial venture capital investments in ...

Threat Analysis Framework
Chinese investors taking
direct minority stake in
company
Chinese LPs funding
through a VC
IP th...

Team 3 - Project Aurora
Jay / Fatima / Laura / Pierce

Updated Problem Statement [01 NOV 2021]
Hong Kong presents a unique opportunity to support activists currently attempting ...

Original Problem Statement
How can the United States employ its cyber capabilities to provide the populace of Hong Kong
wi...

Hypotheses
The CCP’s Censorship Apparatus
The CCP’s censorship system operates on all-or-nothing blocking (response: (in H...

Hypotheses
Corporate Cyber / Information Policy
Western democracies can influence tech corporations in their support for p...

Hypotheses
What should the US be doing?
The US can and should exert greater political pressure on China over Hong Kong. (r...

Next Steps
● Continue to conduct interviews
○ Michael McFaul
○ Alexsandra Corwin (US DoS)
○ Wraith Zhong 钟瑞
○ Donald Clark...

Team 4 - ShortCircuit
Abeer / Ankit / David / Mikk / Miku / Youngjun

Updated Problem Statement
To compete with the PRC’s semiconductor industry remain competitive in the global semiconductor
...

Updated Problem Statement
Bottom line: how does the USG most efficiently invest $1B to optimize US competitiveness and
rev...

Hypotheses
Geopolitics
PRC’s pressure on Taiwan will negatively impact the US’s semiconductor supply chain ? ✓
Preventing ...

Hypotheses
Investment
High net worth capital investor enthusiasm exists for hardware R&I, attributable to patriotism. ✓
Wh...

Jimmy Goodrich
- VP of Global Policy at Semiconductors Industry Association
- Key Takeaways:
- US only has 12% of semis ma...

Antun Domic
- Former CTO of Synopsys, Lecturer of EE at Stanford
- Key Takeaways:
- Companies don’t maintain a ‘second sou...

Eric Sayers
- Nonresident Fellow at American Enterprise Institute
- Key Takeaways:
- To secure the supply chain, we need t...

Tadahiro Kuroda
- Professor, Director, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
- Key Takeaways:
- Japan is ver...

Nerissa Draeger
- Director of Global University Engagements at Lam Research
- Key Points:
- Material shortages might be a ...

Matt Turpin
- Visiting fellow Hoover Institution
- Key Takeaways:
- Auto chip shortage wasn’t about fabrication issues - i...

Edlyn Levine
- Chief Technologist at MITRE Accelerator, Research Associate at Harvard
- Key Takeaways:
- Outsourcing is th...

Heather Richman v2
- Founder, Defense Investment Network
- Key Takeaways:
- Clarified that the proposal she is putting tog...

Next Steps
- Brainstorm and validate possible solutions to our PS
- Create a visualization our problem statement and possi...

Team 5 - Team Drones
Josh / Felipe / Tom

Problem Statement (Background)
Context: Taiwan’s terrain has long provided it with a defensive advantage in warfare, but m...

Running Problem Statement
Week 6:
To enhance the command and control capabilities of Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense...

Hypotheses/Assumptions
China’s Imagining of Future Amphibious Invasions
PRC views drone swarms as an important way to seiz...

This Week’s Interviews:
- Ambassador Michael Mcfaul
- Russ Corwin (US Army Foreign Area Officer)
- John Castillo (US Air F...

Next Steps and Priorities
- Validate solutions with Taiwan Stakeholders for feasibility
- Integrate further with more US c...

Team 6 - Apollo
Arden / Donovan / Francesca / Mi Jin / Omar

Updated Problem Statement
As the U.S. faces the prospect of an cross-strait invasion of Taiwan, the US Space Force must de...

Updated Problem Statement
The United States Space Force lacks the necessary frameworks and incentive
mechanisms it needs t...

Key Takeaways
● The private sector is less concerned about assuming risk and/or getting caught in
the middle of a conflict...

Hypotheses
Public-Private Partnerships
Working with the DoD nontrivially increases risk for private companies ? X
Space Fo...

Next Steps
- Continue conducting interviews
- Evaluate analog (Civil Reserve Air Fleet)
- Understand commercial interests/...

Team 7 - Catena
Akshay / Bill / Katie / Theo

Updated Problem Statement
The CCP’s increasingly common use of coercive diplomacy in
the form of trade sanctions makes Sou...

Key Takeaways from Week 6

Dr. Thomas Fingar - FSI Stanford
• There’s a lot of hand ringing, a lot of “this could happen,” but there isn’t a lot of
p...

Dr. Martijn Rasser - CNAS
• Examples of economic impact include Australian wine, Taiwanese pineapples,
Baltic Republic exp...

Larry Diamond - FSI Stanford
• Stressed the importance of transparency when it comes to China’s sharp power and
coercion i...

Next Steps
• Use Australia’s trade and economic relations with China
to determine what areas it would be vulnerable in (Ir...

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Technology, Innovation, and Great
Power Competition
INTLPOL 340; MS&E 296
Steve Blank, Joe Felter, Raj Shah
Lecture #7: Sp...

Space Race 2.0

Competing in Space

General John Raymond
Chief of Space Operations
• First Chief of Space Operations, U.S.
Space Force
• Led re-establishment ...

Technology, Innovation, and Great
Power Competition
INTLPOL 340; MS&E 296
Steve Blank, Joe Felter, Raj Shah
Lecture #7: Sp...

Next Week
• Class 8 Topic: Cyber
• Updated readings will be
on Canvas shortly
• TA Team will post Week 8
Reading Reflectio...

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