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Eric Schmidt Gets A Job At The Pentagon (cnn.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the setting-the-boundaries-for-healthy-relationships dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Alphabet Chairman and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is heading up a new effort to make the Pentagon more tech savvy. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carton on Wednesday appointed Schmidt the head of a new Defense Innovation Advisory Board, which will help the Pentagon keep up with the latest Silicon Valley ideas and apply them at the Department of Defense. The board will address problems in the way the Pentagon uses technology, and it will be tasked with offering "quick solutions." Schmidt's group will have no access to information about military operations strategy. Schmidt will oversee a group of up to 11 other board members, who also have led large private companies and public organizations.

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  1. WOW... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What a surprise.

  2. From Don't Be Evil by Swampash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...to defense contractor making autonomous killing machines.

  3. Make the US military more tech savvy by RightwingNutjob · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Speaking as someone in a vague and unspecified location on the "inside,"

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    One pointy-haired boss leading a panel of eleven other pointy haired bosses with no situation awareness or operational insights is going to fix the problem of a culture of technical incompetence, blind box-checking and bureaucracy for every bit of minutia how exactly?