TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shah,Raj M.
AU  - Kirchhoff,Christopher
TI  - Unit X: how the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are transforming the future of war 
SN  - 9781668031384 (hardcover)
AV  - U 390 S525u 2024
U1  - 355.07 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scribner
KW  - United States
KW  - Defense Innovation Unit
KW  - Estados Unidos.
KW  - Unidad de Innovación de Defensa (DIU)
KW  - Military art and science
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Arte y ciencia militar
KW  - Innovaciones tecnológicas
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Military-industrial complex
KW  - Complejos militares industriales
KW  - Defense industries
KW  - Industrias de defensa
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index; Introduction: slow burn
Unit X
Zeroized
The gonkulator
A new kill chain for North Korea
Unit X loses the X
Washington and the rise of the machines
Venture capital goes to war
Ukraine and the battlefield of the future
From steel to silicon
N2  - "A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon--the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), 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. 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" --
ER  -