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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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As a high school student in the early 1980s, he was concerned by the hostage crisis in Iran and the Cold War, he says. "My The other was to create a low-cost launcher that could quickly loft satellites into outer space. My desire was to join the Air Force and help build technologies to secure the nation," he says. "I

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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Alamouti says tokens, enabled by distributed ledgers, could replace cash as a method of exchange, with low-cost transaction fees. He worked in bookstores and then started a fashion business with his friends while planning his escape from Iran through Pakistan in 1982. He ended up as a refugee in Madrid. Wireless innovator.