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DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the change-of-heart dept.

Starrider writes "It seems the DARPA grant for OpenBSD and for University of Pennsylvania has been cancelled (?) immediately and without warning. See the full story in Theo's email and on deadly.org." Theo is left to only speculate why funding was suddenly pulled. One also has to wonder what this means for the University of Pennsylvania, since they were also in for a piece of the pie.

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  1. Pulling funding is not uncommon by MyNameIsFred · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Anyone who has worked in the defense research biz can tell you that it is not uncommon for funding to be pulled. No big conspiracy is required. Generally, the funding agency has funding diverted from them to pay some other government bill. The price of something else, with a higher priority, went up. The funding agency then has to come up with the money. So they grab money from lower priority projects.