Update #11 -- 1 May 2018


Events

1) Attended "Conflict Scenarios in the Cyber Age" workshop at the Center for International Security and Cooperation. The full day workshop brought global leaders to discuss topics like election hacking, cyber weapon proliferation and other topics.

2) Met with the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps discussing artificial intelligence and machine learning.

3) Attended AI Safety discussion with the chief engineer of Lyft's autonomous vehicle program.

4) Discussion with Citizen Lab Director, Ronald Deibert, centered around our ability to connect outstripping our ability to secure, democracy in retreat with authoritarianism on the rise in cyberspace and a booming surveillance industry that is unregulated with proven benefits.

5) Met with Dep SAF/CIO, Mr. Marion, and members of DIUx in order to discuss Enterprise IT as a Service. Work to do to align AF needs/priorities with DIUx bandwidth to support.

6) Toured Google, NVDIA and PIXAR. Met with leaders at Google and NVDIA discussing AI, machine learning, technology proliferation and other topics.

7) Met with Stanford Vice President, Dr. David Demarest, to discuss strategy development and solving big problems vice small problems in large organizations.

8) Met with GEN (ret) David Petraeus to discuss leadership and accountability.

9) Met with ADM (ret) Gary Roughhead to discuss the results of the Navy Readiness Review and systemic organizational problems across the services. Some problems reach all the way back to DOPMA and Goldwater/Nichols.

10) Met with Saudi Arabian, His Excellence Ahmed Al-Khateeb, to discuss Saudi Arabia Vision 2020 and the ability of Saudi Arabia to increase citizens rights to western activities in a way to foster growth. Saudi Arabia is building a super "Silicon Valley" town the size of small country named Neom.

11) Met with ASD East Asia, HON Randy Schriver to discuss the way forward from AFG to DPRK. Need to work on the AFG 4R Strategy (reinforce, realign, regionalize and reconcile) and focus on five treaty partners in the Pacific. China requires a holistic approach on many fronts.

Speaking engagements:

1) Co-chaired the closing panel for the first-ever student led United Nations simulation. With with SLACK CISO, Geoff Belknap, we discussed the realities of operations (defensively and offensively) in cyberspace to thirty Stanford undergraduates.

2) Spoke at the Foster City Rotary Club about cyber hygiene to fifty members of the group.

3) Presented research on historic strategists informing cyberspace strategy development at the Hoover Institution Quarterly Retreat to over two hundred people.

Upcoming

- Meetings with CNO and COMACC

- Mentorship for four Hacking 4 Defense Teams

- Continued course development for future Stanford class on Sun Tzu and Information Warfare

- Facilitate and guest lecture in Stanford course on the role of Technology and National Security. At the request of AMB Eikenberry, built final paper prompt for the over 160 students.

Writings from this period:

Air Force: Paper is pending final edits and will submit to Air Force Fellows program and pursue online publishing.  Developing cyberspace strategy informed by historical strategists. The research analyzes the work of Thucydides, Jomini, Alfred Thayer Mahan and Herman Kahn an looks at how their efforts can inform defensive cyber activities, offensive cyber activities and overall cyberspace strategy.

Doctoral: Submitted final version of Chapter 1. The role of private foundations in high school. Plan is assess the positive benefits of private foundations and what happens in school districts that do not have private foundations. 

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