Chris Elles and Alex Gallo, “Hacking 4 Defense: Building Product-Mission Fit”

For this episode of the #BruteCast, we were thrilled to welcome back one of our very first guests! #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellow Chris Elles, and Alex Gallo of the Common Mission Project, joined us to talk about the "Hacking 4 Defense" innovation methodology. "Hacking 4 Defense" is a rapidly growing Lean Start Up-based methodology and has grown into the de facto standard for defense innovation education.

Our guests provided a number of contacts to learn more about the "Hacking 4 Defense" program and methodology:

There are several regional branches of the Common Mission Project:
USA: https://www.commonmission.us/
UK: https://www.commonmission.uk/
Australia/New Zealand: https://www.commonmission.org.au/

Hacking 4 Defense homepage: https://www.h4d.us/

Our guests referenced several resources available below for additional reading on defense innovation:
The Secret History of Silicon Valley (Steve Blank): https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
The Rapid Equipping Force Stanford GSB Case Study: https://steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/the-rapid-equipping-force1.pdf
Capella Space (first H4D cohort in 2016): https://www.slideshare.net/sblank/capella-space-lessons-learned-h4d-stanford-2016
https://www.capellaspace.com/
Delta-V: The X of Decisive Tech Advantage by Chris Elles: https://madsciblog.tradoc.army.mil/249-delta-v/

You can reach Alex Gallo at: agallo@commonmission.us
You can reach Chris Elles at: Chriselles@alumni.GSB.Stanford.edu or Christopher.elles@nzdf.mil.nz

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