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Bezos and Tyson Join Pentagon's Innovation Advisory Board

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

fork(2) writes:

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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @12:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @12:08AM (#380951)

    I'm missing Zuckerberg on that list... As a prime provider to the government of real-time geo-tagged status information on enemy-combatants, I mean citizens, hasn't he earned a seat as well?

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @12:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @12:45AM (#380957)

    The Jews with clearance have denied his :)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @12:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @12:49AM (#380958)

    Reid Hoffman, co-founder, LinkedIn

    LinkedIn is like Facebook for grownups.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @12:59AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @12:59AM (#380963)

      Instagram is on the board. Facebook owns Instagram.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:28AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:28AM (#381006)

        Instagram is like Snapchat for grownups.

  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:44AM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:44AM (#380984)

    No Apple or Microsoft as either, which figures I guess, as they're looking for help with innovation.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:55AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:55AM (#380989)

      The Steve Jobs biographer will bring the Reality Distortion Shroud with him.