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Steve Clean The Gordian Knot Heart for Nationwide Safety Innovation at Stanford


penitus cogitare, cito agere – suppose deeply, act rapidly

75 years in the past, the Workplace of Naval Analysis (ONR) helped kickstart innovation in Silicon Valley with a sequence of grants to Fred Terman, Dean of Stanford’s Engineering faculty. Terman used the cash to arrange the Stanford Electronics Analysis Lab. He staffed it together with his lab managers who constructed the primary digital warfare and digital intelligence programs in WWII. This lab pushed the envelope of primary and utilized analysis in microwave units and electronics and inside a number of brief years made Stanford a pacesetter in these fields. The lab grew to become floor zero for the wave of Stanford’s entrepreneurship and innovation within the 1950’s and 60’s and helped type what would later be referred to as Silicon Valley.

75 years later, ONR simply laid down a guess once more, one we imagine will probably be equally transformative. They’re the primary sponsors of the brand new Gordian Knot Heart for Nationwide Safety Innovation at Stanford that Joe Felter, Raj Shah, and I’ve began.


Gordian What?

A Gordian Knot is a metaphor for an intractable downside. Immediately, the USA is dealing with a number of seemingly intractable nationwide safety issues concurrently.

We intend to assist resolve them in Stanford’s Gordian Knot Heart for Nationwide Safety Innovation. Our motto of penitus cogitare, cito agere, suppose deeply, act rapidly, embraces our distinctive intersection of deep downside understanding, mixed with speedy options. The Heart combines six distinctive strengths of Stanford and its location in Silicon Valley.

  1. The insights and experience of Stanford worldwide and nationwide safety coverage leaders
  2. The expertise insights and experience of Stanford Engineering
  3. Distinctive college students keen to assist the nation win the Nice Energy Competitors
  4. Silicon Valley’s deep expertise ecosystem
  5. Our expertise in speedy downside understanding, speedy iteration and deployment of options with pace and urgency
  6. Entry to threat capital at scale

Our focus will match our motto. We’re going to coordinate assets at Stanford and peer universities, and throughout Silicon Valley’s innovation ecosystem to:

  • Scale nationwide safety innovation schooling
  • Practice nationwide safety innovators
  • Provide perception, integration, and coverage outreach
  • Present a continuous output of minimal viable merchandise that may act as catalysts for options to the hardest issues

Why Now? Why Us?

Over the past decade we’ve created a sequence of lessons in entrepreneurship, speedy innovation, and nationwide safety: Lean LaunchPad; Nationwide Science Basis I-Corps; Hacking for Protection; Hacking for Diplomacy; Know-how, Innovation and Fashionable Warfare final 12 months; and this 12 months Know-how, Innovation and Nice Energy Competitors. These lessons have been extensively adopted, throughout the U.S. and globally.

Concurrently, every of us was actively engaged in serving to totally different branches of the federal government perceive, react, and ship options in a quickly altering and difficult setting. It’s grow to be clear to us that for the primary time in three a long time, the U.S. is now engaged in a Nice Energy Competitors. And we’re behind. Our nationwide energy (our affect and footprint on the world stage) is being challenged and successfully negated by autocratic regimes like China and Russia.

GKC joins a choose group of nationwide safety suppose tanks

At Stanford, the Gordian Knot Heart will sit within the Freeman Spogli Institute for Worldwide Research run by Mike McFaul, ex ambassador to Russia. And Mike has graciously agreed to be our Principal Investigator together with Riitta Katila within the Administration Science and Engineering Division (MS&E) within the Engineering Faculty. MS&E is the place disruptive expertise meets nationwide safety, and has a protracted historical past of good contributions from Invoice Perry, Sig Hecker and Elisabeth Pate-Cornell and others. (Stanford’s different coverage institute is the Hoover Establishment, run by Condoleezza Rice, ex secretary of state). All are world-class leaders in understanding worldwide issues, insurance policies, and establishments. Different U.S. international affairs and nationwide safety suppose tanks embody:

We intend to focus the brand new Heart on fixing issues throughout the spectrum of actions that create and maintain nationwide energy. Nationwide energy is the mix of a rustic’s diplomacy (mushy energy and alliances), data, navy and financial energy in addition to its finance, intelligence, and regulation enforcement – or DIME-FIL. Our tasks will probably be these on the intersection of DIME-FIL with the onslaught of business applied sciences (AI, machine studying, autonomy, biotech, cyber, semiconductors, business entry to house, et al.). And we’re going to hit the bottom working by transferring our two nationwide safety lessons — Hacking for Protection, and Know-how Innovation and Nice Energy Competitors (which this 12 months is now a required course within the Worldwide Coverage program) — into the Heart.

We hope our distinctive constitution, “suppose deeply, act rapidly” can complement the extraordinary work these different establishments present.

The Workplace of Naval Analysis (ONR)

The Workplace of Naval Analysis (ONR) has been planning, fostering, and inspiring scientific analysis—and reimagining naval energy—since 1946. The grants it made to Stanford that 12 months have been the primary to any college.

Immediately, the Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps is seeking to discover methods to speed up expertise improvement and supply to our naval forces. There may be broad consensus that the present tempo of expertise improvement and adoption is unsatisfactory, and that with out important reform, we are going to lose the competitors with China within the South China Sea for maritime superiority.

Rear Admiral Selby, Chief of Naval Analysis, has acknowledged that it’s not “enterprise as traditional.” That ONR delivering sustaining improvements for the present fleet and marine forces is not adequate to discourage warfare or hold us within the battle. And that ONR as soon as once more wants to guide with disruptive applied sciences, new operational ideas, new forms of program administration and mindsets. He’s on a mission to supply the Navy and U.S. Marine Corps with simply that. After we approached him in regards to the thought of the Gordian Knot Heart he reminded us, that not solely did ONR sponsor Stanford in 1946, they’ve been sponsoring our Hacking for Protection class since 2016!  Now they’ve grow to be our constitution sponsor for the Gordian Knot Heart.

We hope to earn it – for him, ONR, and the nation.

Steve, Joe and Raj

Classes Discovered

The Heart combines six distinctive strengths of Stanford and its location in Silicon Valley

  • The insights and experience of Stanford worldwide and nationwide safety coverage leaders
  • The expertise insights and experience of Stanford Engineering
  • Distinctive college students keen to assist the nation win the Nice Energy Competitors
  • Silicon Valley’s deep expertise ecosystem
  • Our expertise in speedy downside understanding, speedy iteration and deployment of options with pace and urgency
  • Entry to threat capital at scale

Our focus will match our motto. We’re going to coordinate assets at Stanford and peer universities and throughout Silicon Valley’s innovation ecosystem to:

  • Scale nationwide safety innovation schooling
  • Practice nationwide safety innovators
  • Provide perception, integration, and coverage outreach
  • Present a continuous output of minimal viable merchandise that may act as catalysts for options to the hardest issues



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