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DARPA Director Seeks to Renew Academic Research Partnerships
Colleagues,
As reported in the New York Times ... The new director of the Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ... has started visiting university campuses around the country in an effort to rebuild bridges...
... The director, Regina E. Dugan, who was appointed in July ... has made visits to the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; the University of California, Los Angeles; and the California Institute of Technology. She had previously visited Virginia Tech and Texas A&M...
... the agency’s relationship with some of the nation’s leading technology universities had become decidedly chilly as basic research financing declined. In 2005, Darpa officials revealed that financing for university researchers fell to $123 million from $214 million, in a relatively steady budget for computer science research that rose from $546 million in 2001 to $583 million in 2005...
... “University-based research is an important component of Darpa’s future activities,” Dr. Dugan said in a statement. “It is our goal to strengthen this partnership, enabling some of the best minds to serve with and in the government in the best interests of the nation and the U.S. Department of Defense.”...
Read on at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/science/07darpa.html?_r=2&ref...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in the New York Times ... The new director of the Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ... has started visiting university campuses around the country in an effort to rebuild bridges...
... The director, Regina E. Dugan, who was appointed in July ... has made visits to the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; the University of California, Los Angeles; and the California Institute of Technology. She had previously visited Virginia Tech and Texas A&M...
... the agency’s relationship with some of the nation’s leading technology universities had become decidedly chilly as basic research financing declined. In 2005, Darpa officials revealed that financing for university researchers fell to $123 million from $214 million, in a relatively steady budget for computer science research that rose from $546 million in 2001 to $583 million in 2005...
... “University-based research is an important component of Darpa’s future activities,” Dr. Dugan said in a statement. “It is our goal to strengthen this partnership, enabling some of the best minds to serve with and in the government in the best interests of the nation and the U.S. Department of Defense.”...
Read on at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/science/07darpa.html?_r=2&ref...
ENJOY!
CC
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