DARPA August 31, 2020 A new DARPA effort aims to recruit standout scientists and engineers beginning their careers for a two-year position at the agency. The DARPA Innovation Fellowship Program will select fellows to push the limits of existing technology through rapid exploration and analysis of a high volume of promising new ideas. The Projects will focus on answering high-risk/high-reward ‘what if?’ questions and assessing the impact of further investment on problems of importance to the Department of Defense. The fellowships are a great way for the nation’s future scientific thought leaders to have the opportunity to make extensive connections […]
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Protecting emerging and existing technology investments with escrow
Defense Systems August 14, 2020 One of the key concerns for all government agencies — especially DOD with its national security mission — is what happens to the technology they have procured when a commercial developer determines that it will no longer support that version of the technology, merges with or is acquired by another company, goes out of business or no longer has the ability to make changes to the software source code or underlying technology. On a basic level technology escrow is a legal agreement between all parties involved in a technology transaction. It is managed by a […]