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Pentagon to invest $75 million in local tech industry

Original post made on Aug 31, 2015

In a bid to fortify United States security and manufacturing, the Pentagon and a consortium of partners are making a $171 million bet that Silicon Valley can emerge as the global leader in the nascent field of flexible hybrid electronics. Announcing the initiative Friday at the NASA Ames Research Center, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter pledged that research into the technology would be headquartered in the South Bay as part of a renewed effort to strengthen ties between the country's military and its private tech sector.

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Posted by George
a resident of Rex Manor
on Aug 31, 2015 at 4:24 pm

Believe Anna Eshoo or Zoe Lofgren and I'll tell you some more fairy tales.

Those to "ladies" have be bamboozaling the south bay for years.

Two self promoting incompetent politicians.

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Posted by longtime resident
a resident of another community
on Sep 1, 2015 at 11:27 am

We should be very careful about this!!!!
Some of us remember President Eisenhower's warning as he left office to beware of the "military/industrial complex."
And these were the words of a President and the Commander in Chief of the American forces during WWII.
He knew what he was talking about then, and why would his warning be less important now?

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