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In May 2018, the Kessel Run Experimentation Lab set up at a WeWork shared facility in central Boston. It initially had space for 90 engineers, but planned for 300 within a year.[1] The name "Kessel Run" came from a line in the 1977 film Star Wars, and the laboratory's intent to smuggle new software development capability into the Air Force and use it to set new speed records.[1] The inspiration for Kessel Run was an aerial refueling management application which was developed by a joint Air Force Defense Innovation Unit and Pivotal Software team in four months, as opposed to a more typical time of five years.[1] The Chief Operating Officer of the lab was Air Force Captain Bryon Kroger, and the Chief Product Officer was civilian Adam Furtado, who declared he was not a Star Wars fan, and had quit watching the film at the scene with the line.[1]


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