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Max Q: A landing system for the moon and beyond

TechCrunch

Nearly a year after the agency announced that SpaceX beat out competitors (including Blue Origin and Boeing) for the opportunity, the agency said it would be opening competition for a second lunar lander under a new contract called Sustaining Lunar Development. The heavy-lift rocket has been under development since 2014. (H/T

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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 3

Accenture

By the time he became only the third CEO in Microsoft history in 2014, Nadella was intimately familiar with Microsoft’s culture as a Microsoft employee of 25+ years. Aaron Bjork, Principal Group Program Manager within the DevDiv, described it as a journey that was anything but a straight path from A to B.

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Attend the 6 Feb @Cloudera Federal Forum: For the Analyst, Data Scientist, #BigData Technologist in DC

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley The agenda for the 3rd Annual Cloudera Federal Forum (6 Feb 2014, Hanover MD) has firmed up and will no doubt lead to an incredible event. Matt Carroll – General Manager, 42Six, a CSC Company. 11:00 AM Government Panel. Moderated by LTG (R) Richard Zahner. Noon Morning Wrap Up. 12:15 PM Lunch.

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Part-1: Will Artificial Intelligence Help Maintain U.S. Naval Superiority over China’s Growing Naval Power?

Marv's Smart Future

A viable alternative could be to structure a Navy AI program with features similar to the integrated DARPA/Navy/Air Force Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) project.

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Finally, as Theranos demonstrated so vividly, it is harder to sustain a hype balloon in a scientific enterprise than in many of the markets where Silicon Valley has prospered. Second, many of the markets where fortunes will be made are regulated; navigating regulated markets also takes skills that are conspicuously missing in Silicon Valley.