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Unit X : How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War by Christopher Kirchhoff and Raj M. Shah (2024, Hardcover)
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PublisherScribner
ISBN-101668031388
ISBN-139781668031384
eBay Product ID (ePID)28063421575
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Book TitleUnit X : How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary Science, Military / Weapons, Geopolitics, American Government / National
Publication Year2024
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Technology & Engineering, History
AuthorChristopher Kirchhoff, Raj M. Shah
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight17.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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LCCN2024-402855
Reviews"Engaging and important. This is the story of a trailblazing Pentagon unit designed to harness American intellect, spur innovation, and maximize entrepreneurship so that peace will be preserved and the free world defended." --Lieut. General H.R. McMaster, U.S. Army (Ret.), former National Security Adviser, and New York Times bestselling author of Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, "Extraordinary. A gripping, firsthand account of the authors' role in building and leading the innovation unit within the Department of Defense that is helping to get America ready for the future of warfare." --Christian Brose, Chief Strategy Officer of Anduril Industries, Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and author of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare, "Inspiring. A riveting reminder of how hard protecting our nation's security can be, and how much depends on the ingenuity of a select few. A must-read." --Walter Isaacson, author of the New York Times bestselling biographies Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, "This book offers a window into how dinosaurs learn to innovate. With rich experience and vivid storytelling, Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff show how it's possible to coax creativity out of bureaucracies and fight for change in institutions designed to sustain the status quo." --Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again , and host of the podcast Re:Thinking
Dewey Edition23/eng/20240705
Dewey Decimal355.07
SynopsisShortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon--the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X--whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley's cutting-edge technology to America's military: from the two men who launched the unit. A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites--all these and more are becoming part of America's DIU-fast-tracked arsenal. Until recently, the Pentagon was known for its uncomfortable relationship with Silicon Valley and for slow-moving processes that acted as a brake on innovation. Unit X was specifically designed as a bridge to Valley technologists that would accelerate bringing state of the art software and hardware to the battle space. Given authority to cut through red tape and function almost as a venture capital firm, Shah, Kirchhoff, and others in the Unit who came after were tasked particularly with meeting immediate military needs with technology from Valley startups rather than from so-called "primes"--behemoth companies like Lockheed, Raytheon, and Boeing. Taking us inside AI labs, drone workshops, and battle command centers--and, also, overseas to Ukraine's frontlines--Shah and Kirchhoff paint a fascinating picture of what it takes to stay dominant in a fast-changing and often precarious geopolitical landscape. In an era when America's chief rival, China, has ordered that all commercial firms within its borders make their research and technology available for military exploitation, strengthening the relationship between Washington and Silicon Valley was always advisable. Today, it is an urgent necessity., For readers of books like Chris Miller's Chip War, David Sanger's Perfect Weapon, and Christian Brose's Kill Chain, an insider's account of the formation of a new unit at the Pentagon, the Defense Innovation Unit, which is introducing a warfare transformation as profound as the invention of gun powder or nuclear weapons., Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year. A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon--the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X--whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley's cutting-edge technology to America's military: from the two men who launched the unit. A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites--all these and more are becoming part of America's DIU-fast-tracked arsenal. Until recently, the Pentagon was known for its uncomfortable relationship with Silicon Valley and for slow-moving processes that acted as a brake on innovation. Unit X was specifically designed as a bridge to Valley technologists that would accelerate bringing state of the art software and hardware to the battle space. Given authority to cut through red tape and function almost as a venture capital firm, Shah, Kirchhoff, and others in the Unit who came after were tasked particularly with meeting immediate military needs with technology from Valley startups rather than from so-called "primes"--behemoth companies like Lockheed, Raytheon, and Boeing. Taking us inside AI labs, drone workshops, and battle command centers--and, also, overseas to Ukraine's frontlines--Shah and Kirchhoff paint a fascinating picture of what it takes to stay dominant in a fast-changing and often precarious geopolitical landscape. In an era when America's chief rival, China, has ordered that all commercial firms within its borders make their research and technology available for military exploitation, strengthening the relationship between Washington and Silicon Valley was always advisable. Today, it is an urgent necessity.
LC Classification NumberU394.A7S5 2024
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