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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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  2. Yes! by Hard_Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now DARPA can hook up with Greg!

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