DARPA Severs Ties with Jason

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Posted by timothy on Monday March 25, 2002 @12:52PM 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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Re:Jason?? by 3waygeek · 2002-03-25 13:16 · Score: 3, Funny

No -- the people who interface between the NSA and the Grays
NPR had a bit on this by renehollan · 2002-03-25 14:00 · 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 phr2 · 2002-03-25 20:40 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  It's obvious both sides are bullshitting. If te Pentagon just wanted more CS geeks and the Jasonites thought the Pentagon's nominees weren't good enough, Jason would have come up with some counterproposal naming some different CS geeks instead. Maybe it would have gone back and forth but the two sides wouldn't have walked away from each other so easily. There is clearly behind the scenes crap going on.
2. Re:NPR had a bit on this by renehollan · 2002-03-26 02:34 · 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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Re:Help, I think I'm being fucked by TRACK-YOUR-POSITION · 2002-03-25 16:59 · Score: 3, Funny

So they put the fucking kibosh on that.
Geez, "put the kibosh"? The only person I know who talks like that is my grandpa!
Grandpa, is that you?
Yes! by Hard_Code · 2002-03-26 01:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Now DARPA can hook up with Greg!

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