On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Steve Blank, a Silicon Valley pioneer and founder of the K&S Ranch who is an adjunct professor at Stanford University, and Dr. Joe Felter, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania who is now the director of Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation and coauthor of Hacking for Defense, discuss the imperative for tectonic change in solving US national security challenges, the importance of a faster moving innovation ecosystem, more rapidly harnessing commercial technologies, learning lessons from Russia’s war on Ukraine and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.