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Bezos and Tyson Join Pentagon's Innovation Advisory Board

Accepted submission by fork(2) at 2016-07-27 14:08:19
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I gave up on trying to format a list decently..

      SpaceNews [spacenews.com] 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:
     


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  • Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, Alphabet Inc.
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  • Jeff Bezos, president, chairman and CEO, Amazon Inc.
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  • Adam Grant, professor, Wharton School of Business
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  • Danny Hillis, computer theorist & co-founder, Applied Inventions
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  • Reid Hoffman, co-founder, LinkedIn, and partner, Greylock Partners
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  • Walter Isaacson, president & CEO, Aspen Institute, former TIME magazine editor and Steve Jobs biographer
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  • Eric Lander, president and founding director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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  • Marne Levine, chief operating officer, Instagram
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  • J. Michael McQuade, senior vice president for science and technology, United Technologies
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  • William McRaven, chancellor, University of Texas System
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  • Milo Medin, vice president, Access Services, Google Capital
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  • Richard Murray, professor, California Institute of Technology
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  • Jennifer Pahlka, founder, Code for America
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  • Cass Sunstein, professor, Harvard Law School
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  • Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and author
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      The board is led by Eric Schmidt.


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