SpaceNews reports that Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that Jeff Bezos and Neil deGrasse Tyson will join the Defense Innovation Advisory Board.
Carter has asked the board to identify private-sector practices that the Pentagon could adopt. A first round of recommendations is expected in October.
The full list of current board members is:
· Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, Alphabet Inc.
· Jeff Bezos, president, chairman and CEO, Amazon Inc.
· Adam Grant, professor, Wharton School of Business
· Danny Hillis, computer theorist & co-founder, Applied Inventions
· Reid Hoffman, co-founder, LinkedIn, and partner, Greylock Partners
· Walter Isaacson, president & CEO, Aspen Institute, former TIME magazine editor and Steve Jobs biographer
· Eric Lander, president and founding director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
· Marne Levine, chief operating officer, Instagram
· J. Michael McQuade, senior vice president for science and technology, United Technologies
· William McRaven, chancellor, University of Texas System
· Milo Medin, vice president, Access Services, Google Capital
· Richard Murray, professor, California Institute of Technology
· Jennifer Pahlka, founder, Code for America
· Cass Sunstein, professor, Harvard Law School
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday July 27 2016, @11:59PM
Bozos and Mike Tyson in the Pentagon? Trump is going too far!
(the man's name is deGrasse-Tyson, use the whole last name.)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:08AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:41AM
Indeed his last name is Tyson.
Tyson's middle name, deGrasse, is from the maiden name of his paternal grandmother, who was born as Altima de Grasse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Tyson [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:59AM
aristarchus does the grammar nazi walk of shame . . . :( But still, how was I supposed to know it wasn't Mike? Or the chicken guy?)