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Students at 17 top research colleges and universities nationwide will participate in the single largest fall semester enrollment of the NSIN Hacking for Defense (H4D) course in the program’s history.

Remote education in the pandemic has been hard for everyone. Hard for students having to deal with a variety of remote instructional methods. Hard for parents with K through 12 students at home trying to keep up with remote learning, and hard for instructors trying to master new barely functional tools and technology while trying to keep students engaged gazing at them through Hollywood Squares-style boxes.

Thornberry is proposing legislation that would make it easier for startups like Capella Space to continue to get private funding and compete for DoD small business awards.

The committee fact sheet notes that Capella Space was born in 2016 out of a DoD-funded program called Hacking4Defense that is run at several major U.S. universities. It was created to give students the opportunity to learn how to work with DoD and the intelligence community to address security challenges. One of the H4D teams at Stanford University became Capella Space and quickly raised funding following the class.

Stanford University concluded its 5th offering of H4D this June. The H4D Instructor Team made up of Steve Blank, Pete Newell, Jeff Decker, Joe Felter, and Steve Weinstein hosted the student’s final presentations virtually on June 9, 2020. At the end of each quarter, each student team gives a final “Lessons Learned” presentation, which tells the teams’ stories of their 10-week journey of hard-won learning and discovery. The keynote speaker was former Secretary of Defense General Jim Mattis who gave an inspiring talk about service to the nation.

Nona Black fits the profile of a Mission Driven Entrepreneur. Read more as she shares her personal mission and experiences with Hacking for Defense and helping launch Georgia Tech’s first Female Startup Lab.

Olivia Brandt fits the profile of a Mission Driven Entrepreneur. Read more as she shares her experiences with Hacking for Diplomacy and X-Labs at JMU.

New course offering led by Scripps Oceanography enables students to develop solutions to real-world problems facing the ocean

See more videos from our key leaders in national defense, including Former Secretary of Defense William Perry, Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Former Director of the CIA David Petraeus, Former Commander of United States Forces Korea Vincent Brooks, and more!

“If and when we reach a new normal in the wake of COVID-19, let’s make sure it includes an improved approach to better and more efficient ways of operating for small units—starting with morning meetings.”

It all started with the desire to create an innovative solution to a DOD problem. Lumineye Inc., the grand prize winner of xTechSearch 2.0, began as a group of classmates at Boise State University participating in the Hacking for Defense (H4D) program, where students were challenged to find a solution to identify humans through radio frequencies…

BETHESDA, MD, Dec. 2, 2019 – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced a corporate donation to The Common Mission Project to support the adoption of innovative solutions that solve critical national security challenges through the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) program Hacking for Defense® (H4D), a nationwide academic course.

NSIN will expand its partnership with BMNT Inc. and The Common Mission Project to further promote the H4D university program.

The three USC Viterbi students who comprise the fledgling startup Atomus believe they have come up with an idea that would benefit both the Marines and defense contractors and, in the process, improve America’s security