Word: dod
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...library went along with the deception, said Brown, because it got a 15% cut of the awards from the Pentagon. That amounted to $12.6 million in income for the library last year on $84 million in DOD contracts. Librarian of Congress James Billington, who ordered an internal investigation of the suspect contracts, directed that they be either canceled or transferred to the Pentagon...
...fatter times. That means eliminating Navy ships, Army divisions and Air Force fighter aircraft envisioned by Caspar Weinberger in the flush years of the early 1980s -- nearly $200 billion in weapons and research programs over the next four years. Said former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara last week: "The DOD is as close to bankrupt as you can get for a Government agency...
...DOD has not announced plans to change classification procedures, but Shattuck said further tightening would be in keeping with past Reagan administration policy...
...case with which a computer hacker. Robert T. Morris '87-'88, levelled one of the nation's largest computer networks may be used to justify unreasonable Department of Defense (DOD) restrictions on computer access and exchange of information. said Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck...
...problem is still in the future. "I see no problem with the Pentagon unless the funding rises above 10 percent [of overall research]," said Lewis M. Branscomb, professor at the Kennedy School of Government and former head scientist at IBM. "The DOD is capable of funding research in ways that are acceptable to the university...