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CMU and military contracting
by vincent Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004 at 5:50 PM
eirene@lm.com

documentation of CMU's pursuit of military monies

friends,

there are volumes of documentation, research and news clippings about CMU's military adventures..just drop me a line for these and where to go to do further research...just drop me an email

vincent
eirene@lm.com

the following is one of the clearest piece of research that connects CMU to warmaking.

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CMU / SEI GOES TO WASHINGTON

"MR. DRUFFEL: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members. I've also submitted a position statement and I'll just summarize the major points that I made in that statement.
The SEI is relatively new among the FFRDCs and certainly among the smallest. We were established in 1984 after a competitive procurement process initiated by DOD. That was started after an industry-led panel reviewed the situation and decided that -- recommended that an SEI be established and that it be at a major university because they did not believe that industry would be willing to do the kind of work that they wanted done. And the SEI is managed by CMU, as with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, without fee. I won't presume to lecture you on software, but let me just spend a moment talking about the importance of software to our defense systems.
rest of the article >>> http://notowar.com/archives/sei.html

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