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MIT: A defense research giant, with a long tradition of defiance

3 pointsby Rodalmost 15 years ago

2 comments

hgaalmost 15 years ago
BZZZT: MIT <i>administers</i> Lincoln Labs just like the University of California administered Los Alamos and Laurence Livermore (exclusively from the beginning, now in a consortium). And there are many other examples of this method the Federal Government uses.<p>You simply can't consolidate the pass-through budget of Lincoln Labs with MIT proper and I gave up on this article after that tendentious attack.
apialmost 15 years ago
The mission of MIT seems to be: gather together lots of smart ambitious people and get them to work on problems of DOD interest.