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US Defense Secretary Mulls Rapid Grants For Tech Companies
itwbennett writes: The push for greater cooperation with tech companies has been a big theme for the DOD in the last year, but many big tech companies so far have been wary of the government's overtures following NSA spying revelations. Now, the government is taking a more 'if you can't join them, build your own' approach. The U.S. Department of Defense is considering offering rapid seed funding to private companies as a way to encourage more work on technology projects with the commercial sector, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Wednesday. 'The DOD has to tap into all the streams of innovation and emerging technology and it has to do so much more quickly,' Carter told DARPA's Wait, What? conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
I forget which conference is being co-hosted this year -- is it O RLY or Srsly? Do I get a discount if I also register for "Yeah I Went There"?
Secretary of WAR! Damn pussies today!
The DoD has been reaching out to the tech sector for decades and has found that even outright dropping money into the laps of tech companies is not enough to get them to do business with the military, er, government. So they're trying again, hoping the new generation is dumber than the last. Hint, kids: no one helps them unless they have a gun to their heads for very good reasons.
on the what.
...what do they call it when you begin to blend government and business...
I forget the name, but I do recall there were a lot of dead bodies. So, probably a mistake.
See subject: The Feds won't stop until they have successfully eradicated the encryption racket.
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APK
P.S.=> It won't be long until it's moved over seas & everything goes back to normal... apk
I'm sure I don't need to tell you this, but DO NOT, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES cooperate with the DOD, at all.
If approached, DO NOT say ANYTHING, and RESIST all contact from any agency of the US GOVERNMENT regardless of how much money they claim to offer.
The US GOVERNMENT leaves nothing but DEATH in its wake, as witnessed from the 500,000 bodies left on the streets of Iraq, with NO COMPENSATION, and of course, "no comment", to its victims.
Captcha: Imperial. I kid you not.
Fast. Government procurement. Hahahahahahaha. Speaking as a deeply embedded cog in the military industrial complex.
Crony capitalism... on speed! What a great idea!
What they mean is that they might get a grant by the end of the decade.
...you get up with fleas.
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
The push for greater cooperation with tech companies has been a big theme for the DOD in the last year, but many big tech companies so far have been wary of the government's overtures following NSA spying revelations.
This is called reaping what you sow.
So essentially they want to bypass all forms of spending oversight, and want to be able to freewheel spending money on long bets with nobody telling them how they can spend it.
A paranoid DoD jumping at shadows, and looking to throw money at the private sector for whatever buzzword someone comes up with. Yeah, like this won't lead to massive amounts of utterly wasted money without any adult supervision. This is a license to spent like drunken monkeys on whatever random shit gets in someone's head.
Essentially the military industrial complex is trying to streamline the process and run like a venture capital organization, but with far less concern for the law or the Constitution.
In the books there's always a cigar chomping guy with a bad military haircut who does the reveal that they no longer listen to government.
This has "dodgy actors with slush fund and little oversight" written all over it. And, of course, corporate NDAs will preclude them ever being able to say what they do with all that money. Proprietary information and all that.
*sigh* Time to add another fucking layer of tinfoil.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Republican? I was under the impression the current Secretary of Defense was part of a Democratic administration. Granted, when it comes to defense spending it's hard to tell the difference.
In any event, when we get our well deserved Trumpublican administration, things will change. More winning. More artful deals. More classy and sophisticated. Five big neon letters on the White House facade. Finally, I'll be able to stop worrying abut my children's future.
"F-35"
The New Trumpublicanism: "We Will Have So Much Winning If I Get Elected That You May Get Bored With Winning"
So bring on the new techdeath funding!! Buahahaha!!!
I'm not scratching my head because it doesn't stop US from exporting cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia where become part of our strategic ally's war against the Houthis in Yemen, killing civilians in the process. Why should anyone worry that their DARPA funded tech will be less profitable than one might hope. Just because you may not be able export to Russia or North Korea? The world is still a pretty big place full of lots of opportunity, especially if you can build a better rat trap.
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Wednesday. 'The DOD has to tap into all the streams of innovation and emerging technology and it has to do so much more quickly,'
Question 1: Do we spend more on military than the rest of the world combined?(*)
Question 2: Is our military already 1,000 times stronger than the next strongest power?
Question 3: Is there an immediate threat to the US from... anyone?
We're killing our country with all this needless spending.
Can't we just sit back and relax for a couple of years?
(*) This doesn't count militarization of the police, or internal police forces such as Homeland security, DEA, TSA, National Guard, and others.
Begin the "foundation" work to create the "3 Laws of Robotics." How would this be presented to the DOD?
They are so disgusting of being Republicans that they call themselves Democrats!
Any time a government says they want to fund "X" everyone inserts "X" into the title and description of whatever project they want funded.
The phrase "High Speed" implies they want to bypass the regular safeguards that are in place. It makes it look like someone is "taking charge" and "cutting though the bureaucracy" and "fixing the problem".
If the DoD lacks the expertise to defend the nation from cyber -crooks and -terrorists, then why not take advantage of the Constitutional clause that gives "The Congress... Power To... grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal...." (Article I, Section 8, Clause 11) to black hat hackers to retaliate against cyber -heists and -attacks? In other words, if the military can't attract hackers, why not simply authorize private citizen/hackers to wage cyber warfare instead? The US never ratified the Paris Declaration of 1856 renouncing privateering, so I don't see any legal obstacle. The solution is NOT throwing a big sack of borrowed money at big corporations like Apple to aid the DoD. Is Apple a hacking team? That's is just an excuse for more cronyism, corporate bailouts, government picking winners and losers in the market. Instead, allow actual black hat hackers to hack the nation's enemies by granting them letters of marque, which give them indemnity from prosecution!