Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
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In 2016, Shah, a former fighter pilot turned entrepreneur, and Kirchhoff, a technology strategist, took charge of what became the Defense Innovation Unit, tasked with finding ways to employ the methods of Silicon Valley startups within the military and bypass cumbersome Pentagon procurement processes. One of their first successes was to develop an app for the Combined Air Operations Center, which had been deploying aircraft against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq by using
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