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Leveraging the Future Research and Development Ecosystem for the Intelligence Community by the U.S. Research Community: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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... cross-sponsor endeavor that synchronized operational analysis Academia featured John Forte, Virginia Tech Applied Research with prototyping and experimentation. This organization helped Corporation, and Randy Katz, University of California (UC)
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... Acquisition-NPS-Paper.pdf. 2 Center for Strategic and International Studies Technology and Intelligence Task Force, 2021, Maintaining the intelligence edge: Reimagining and reinventing intelligence through innovation, https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fspublic/publication/210113_Intelligence_Edge.pdf, p.
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... not familiar with that particular initiative, he mentioned that there are differences in the national security model and the ven- James Gosler, senior fellow, Johns Hopkins University Applied ture capital model. Although the latter could be leveraged in Physics Laboratory, observed that mission owners tend to take some cases, innovation is needed around the IC's biggest mission their sensitive problems to organizations with whom they problems, which often cannot be addressed via the venture have existing relationships (e.g., MITRE, national laboratories, capital model.
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... Randy Katz, vice chancellor for research, UC Berkeley, exwould be no future for -- and therefore no need for investments plained that approximately 60 percent of the $800–900 million in -- the core of silicon technology. This led the IC to invest heavily in the university's sponsored research comes from the federal in gallium arsenide and indium phosphide, with an interest in government.
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... When national origin restrictions were being for its commitment to open research, international collaboration, promulgated in certain open research projects during the prior and an international workforce -- to pursue projects of importance administration, he turned away multiple millions of dollars to federal agencies with intelligence or law enforcement probin potential awards that would have limited participation of lems. In closing, Katz said that there is no impediment to working international students.
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... mission of which is to "perform interdisciplinary research and Katz responded that many aspire to pursue academic careers; development, provide experiential learning and education, [and] however, because there are limited jobs in academia, exposure to solve challenges in national security by strengthening technology, industry and government career paths would serve graduate stu- standards, public policy, and the national security workforce." dents well.
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... . • Devise more transparent time frames for returns on invest ment by the IC from academic researchers with whom it Forte's poll respondents listed the following R&D project contracts; successes: the IC postdoc program; the Intelligence Advanced • Enable efforts to demystify the IC and educate academia; Research Projects Activity (IARPA)
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... Ligler asked progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, about the most effective way to facilitate dual-use applications for and welfare; to secure the national defense; and for other purthe IC. Forte advised looking at the requirements of other govern- poses." He explained that NSF supports academic basic research, ment agencies and augmenting those with a series of threshold providing 27 percent of the total federal support for all science requirements for research products.
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... The University of principal deputy assistant secretary and senior science advisor, Pittsburgh is the lead academic institution for the Space, High- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Performance, and Resilience Computing IUCRC,17 which has (ASPR) , HHS, explained that when the FBI wanted to explore more than 30 participants, including government organizations, the foundations of forensic science, it partnered with NSF to initiacademic laboratories, and industrial laboratories.
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... nomic sequencing technology with data analytical technology for rapid analysis to determine whether an organism has been inten- Chang alluded to editorials opining on whether the United States tionally modified for increased potency. Researchers discovered has declined in science and engineering.
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... He stressed that it is crucial to find the right people to emerging areas of competition based on the proposals it receives, nurture such efforts. Hassell also tries to involve HHS staff in exand it makes decisions about which proposals to fund based on ternal program reviews to observe how other agencies function intellectual merit and broader impacts.
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... Gosler, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Laura M Haas, University of REVIEWERS To ensure that it meets institutional standards for quality Massachusetts Amherst; Robert F


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