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posted by n1 on Wednesday July 27 2016, @11:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-for-business dept.

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


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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday July 27 2016, @11:59PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday July 27 2016, @11:59PM (#380944) Journal

    Bozos and Mike Tyson in the Pentagon? Trump is going too far!

    (the man's name is deGrasse-Tyson, use the whole last name.)

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:08AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:08AM (#380969) Journal
    His last name is not hyphenated.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:41AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:41AM (#380981)

      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

        by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:59AM (#381022) Journal

        aristarchus does the grammar nazi walk of shame . . . :( But still, how was I supposed to know it wasn't Mike? Or the chicken guy?)