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An engrossing inside look at an elite branch within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation
Unit, 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
ast but largely unseen, a joint effort between the Defense Department and Silicon Valley is transforming how war is fought, an innovative upgrade as profound as the invention of gunpowder or the advent of the nuclear age.
Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, and microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites—all these and more are becoming part of America's arsenal, fast-tracked by Unit X.
Until recently, the Pentagon was known for its uncomfortable relationship with Silicon Valley and for cumbersome processes that slowed innovation.
Unit X was specifically designed as a bridge to Valley technologists that would accelerate the movement of state-of-the-art software and hardware to the battle space. Given authority to cut through red tape and function like a venture capital firm, Shah, Kirchhoff, and others in the unit were tasked with meeting immediate military needs by sourcing technology from cutting-edge startups rather than from so-called primes-traditional defense behemoths like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing.
Taking us inside Al labs, drone workshops, and battle command centers-and overseas to Ukraine's front lines-Shah and Kirchhoff paint a fascinating picture of what it takes to stay dominant in a fast-changing and often precarious geopolitical landscape,”