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CIA Chooses: Amazon or IBM?
- adamnemecek 13y agoWhat sort of technology does the CIA get from MIT that's worth almost $300 million a year and is comparable with the Boeing contract?
- epoxyhockey 13y agoCould you elaborate on your question? I seem to not understand its context with relation to the article.
- adamnemecek 13y agoThe article contains this graph http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/MK-CD938_IBMCIA_G_20130611183613.jpg http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/MK-CD938_IBMCIA_G_... where MIT is listed as a DoD (originally I thought it was only CIA) technology provider with a contract of $270 million a year.
- chaz 13y agoMIT operates Lincoln Lab. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Laboratory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Laboratory
- jessaustin 13y agoI'm going to remember this episode the next time the GAO is described as some great oracle of wisdom and impartiality. I guess the IBM lobbyists don't have to worry about this particular act of bribery being investigated too closely.
- tlack 13y agoI'm surprised they'd even consider the cloud, knowing what they must know about the NSA, and its abilities to snoop public infrastructure and cross agency boundaries