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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.
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.
Crony capitalism... on speed! What a great idea!
The US GOVERNMENT leaves nothing but DEATH in its wake
I'm OK with death. What I don't want to have happen is to get my technology slapped with an dual use, ITAR, Wassenaar classification. So they can strangle the market for my product and turn me into a slave for the Pentagon.
Have gnu, will travel.
The US government leaves death in its wake over there.
It leaves money in its wake over here.
Guess where it's trying to woo businesses?
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach either, do tech support.