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DARPA Severs Ties with Jason

Posted by timothy on from the interesting-stuff dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has severed its ties with a secretive advisory panel of elite scientists called Jason."

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  1. NPR had a bit on this by renehollan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Apparently, JASON wants to appoint it's own choices to it's organization, and others want political appointees (all of which, to date, JASON says, were not up to snuff technically). So JASON lost it's funding. That may explain DARPA distancing itself.

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    1. Re:NPR had a bit on this by renehollan · · Score: 3, Interesting
      There is clearly behind the scenes crap going on.

      No doubt. I suspect that the Pentagon wants more control over the makeup of JASON (named after the first letters of the months of the annual contract term - July to November) with it's own appointees and is using the lack of relevant research in recent years as an excuse to seek this kind of control.

      Personally, I think some pure research is always a healthy thing, even if the results are not immediately applicable.

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