MBS 590 – Special Topics In Business Management Section 005, Spring 2019

Instructors: Lieutenant Colonel Holland, PhD, Army Special Operations Command, Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, tjhollan@ncsu.edu, Lisa Chang, Director, Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization, Nelson Hall.

•H4D is an education initiative sponsored by the U.S. Government and taught at several universities.

•NC State’s H4D is aligned with Army Special Operations

•H4D Uses “Lean Startup” a proven Entrepreneurial / Innovative method

•SOF (Special Operations Force) Operators from Ft. Bragg will be paired with multidisciplinary student teams to solve real SOF problems

•Team products will briefed to SOF leaders

AC-130 gunships are parked on the flightline after a morning rainstorm at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Nov. 9, 2018. The AC-130 is a heavily modified C-130 aircraft designed to provide close air support, air interdiction and armed reconnaissance, with several variants in use for more than 40 years. Hurlburt Field is home to AC-130U Spooky and AC-130J Ghostrider gunships, assigned to the 4th and 73rd Special Operations Squadrons, respectively. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Victor J. Caputo)