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In-Q-Tel is pretty explicit about their mission: to support the development of private sector technologies that are of immediate use (within 36 months) to their
by s_q_b 10y ago
In-Q-Tel is pretty explicit about their mission: to support the development of private sector technologies that are of immediate use (within 36 months) to their IC customers. Their investments are sometimes public and they invest in pretty much what you'd expect: D-Wave, Facebook, Keyhole. Even their name is taken straight out of the James Bond tech supplier branch/agent Q.
Nor do they have even particularly critical national security technology. In-Q-Tel probably has less dark tech knowledge than your average building at NBP.
One of my startups was contacted by one of their employees (it's almost always an employee, not the org directly), and they really just facilitated our data analysis processes, and made some connections. It never got to the stage where we accepted any money, and it was a lot less creepy than some of the government contractors cough Mitre cough.
Disclaimer: I have not, do not, and will not work on mass surveillance technology.
- NumberCruncher 10y agoEverybody has his on price....
- T0T0R0 10y ago...than your average building at NBP. ...building at NBP. ...NBP. Name Binding Protocol National Biosolids Partnership National Braille Press National Broadband Plan Neighborhood Broadcast Problem Neutral Body Posture NetBIOS Protocol Network Binding Protocol Network Bootstrap Program Network Bridge Processor New Black Panthers Non-invasive Blood Pressure Normal Blood Pressure Normal Boiling Point Northern Business Products Namco Bandai Partners Hmmm...
- s_q_b 10y agoNational Business Park
- hansjorg 10y agoFor a minute I thought that was some kind of general name, say for a business park of a certain size or standing within its state, but according to Google (first hit) it's this place: http://cryptome.org/eyeball/nsa-nbp/nsa-nbp.htm http://cryptome.org/eyeball/nsa-nbp/nsa-nbp.htm
- lightbendover 10y agoFrom my past life in DC, we always just called it "Up North."
- olalonde 10y agoAnd I guess IC stands for Intelligence Community?
- s_q_b 10y agoYes, the Federal government loves acronyms, and sometimes I forget these are not commonly known in most of the nation.
- 3pt14159 10y agoHere is a tip when you're faced with an acronym that someone that works the IC throws at you. Just Google it with "CIA" attached. Even though NBP is associated with the NSA there is enough link juice connecting the CIA to basically everything you could possibly associate in intelligence. Another example, "BND CIA" => first result is correct. "ISI CIA" => correct. etc.
- CPLX 10y ago> Even their name is taken straight out of the James Bond tech supplier branch/agent Q And here I was convinced it was a mashup of the words "intel" and "incubate"
- s_q_b 10y agoNope, it's intentionally a James Bond reference. Never let it be said the CIA doesn't have a sense of humor.
- qohen 10y agoNever let it be said the CIA doesn't have a sense of humor. If you haven't seen it [0], they began posting on Twitter with this: We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet. [0] https://twitter.com/cia/status/474971393852182528 https://twitter.com/cia/status/474971393852182528
- cryoshon 10y ago>Disclaimer: I have not, do not, and will not work on mass surveillance technology. I like this. It'd be good if more of us added this disclaimer... to everything we write.