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ganulv
08-16-2011, 04:58 PM
DARPA’s getting audited (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/08/pentagon-darpa-probe/). As someone who doesn’t know anything about the workings of this particular agency but does have some sense of the scale of the federal government and the general incestuousness of funded research, my first two thoughts are, “In the grand scheme of things that’s actually not that much money” and “Even if this isn’t impropriety she should have understood that it gives the appearance of.” Anyone who does know something about the workings of this particular agency care to comment?

120mm
08-16-2011, 05:06 PM
The joke around here is that DARPA's primary mission is the incineration of $100 bills by the ton.

bourbon
08-16-2011, 08:55 PM
The joke around here is that DARPA's primary mission is the incineration of $100 bills by the ton.
Measuring the price of fruit (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/darpas-secret-spy-machine/all/1) of in Jalalabad?


Anyone who does know something about the workings of this particular agency care to comment?
I have no tacit knowledge or experience, but I think the linked-above article will be valuable to read.


“There is a time and a place for daydreaming. But it is not at Darpa,” she told a Congressional panel last March (.pdf). “Darpa is not the place of dreamlike musings or fantasies, not a place for self-indulging in wishes and hopes. Darpa is a place of doing.”