{"id":70949,"date":"2017-07-17T03:22:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T10:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/the-former-secretary-of-defense-outlines-the-future-of-warfare"},"modified":"2017-07-22T00:01:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T07:01:18","slug":"the-former-secretary-of-defense-outlines-the-future-of-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/the-former-secretary-of-defense-outlines-the-future-of-warfare","title":{"rendered":"The Former Secretary of Defense Outlines the Future of Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-former-secretary-of-defense-outlines-the-future-of-warfare.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Barack Obama appointed a new Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter\u2014a technocrat physicist, an arms control veteran, and a professor at Stanford\u2014to help close this divide. During his tenure, Carter set up a virtual outpost in Silicon Valley. He worked to make it easier for tech companies to sell things to the Pentagon, for their engineers to work there, and for their bosses to offer up advice. He even let WIRED tag along and write a profile of him. He also impressed the local royalty. \u201cHe\u2019s been amazing,\u201d Ben Horowitz, the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, told me in an interview.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The former Secretary of Defense built a bridge between tech and the Pentagon. Here, he talks about its importance in an uncertain time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/02\/former-secretary-defense-outlines-future-warfare\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/02\/former-secretary-defense-outlines-future-warfare\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, Barack Obama appointed a new Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter\u2014a technocrat physicist, an arms control veteran, and a professor at Stanford\u2014to help close this divide. During his tenure, Carter set up a virtual outpost in Silicon Valley. He worked to make it easier for tech companies to sell things to the Pentagon, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71179,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70949\/revisions\/71179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}