An academic course, endorsed by the Defense Department and delivered by accelerator company BMNT, aims to help science and engineering students develop their ideas into companies. It's called Hacking for Defense. One startup, called Pharos Aerospace, hopes to help both Defense and commercial satellite operators deal with space debris. For more, Federal News Network's Tom Temin spoke with former University of Chicago students Victor Tyne and Brian Klein.

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