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Bush went out of his way to say that Negroponte will deliver the President's daily intelligence briefing and will have ultimate authority over the nation's sprawling intel apparatus, including an estimated $40 billion annual budget. But considering how vague the legislation that established the DNI is, Negroponte's ability to actually do that is an open question. In fact, his position puts him smack in the middle of what could be the nastiest bureaucratic battle in Washington for years to come: a tussle over money with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, considered an almost unmatched infighter. Until...
Though Negroponte has no formal intel background, he's an experienced consumer of intelligence, having headed five U.S. diplomatic missions. His well-tested skills as a diplomat may be particularly valuable. "He understands the power centers in Washington," Bush said of Negroponte. "That was code to the intelligence agencies that John is not going to rock the boat," says Leslie Gelb, a former Defense and State Department official and president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. "He's not going to try to pound the table and create a revolution. The agencies would blow up anybody who would...
...biggest potential obstacle, according to Gartner analyst Iyengar. "Indians tend to be less security sensitive than the clients," he says. "It's quite common for Indians to share salary information with each other. In the U.S., this is absolute heresy." At wholly owned research centers, like those run by Intel and Microsoft, security is less of a concern, says Stefan Spohr, a vice president at consulting firm A.T. Kearney. "You build firewalls. You educate your employees. It's really no different than...
...create a mirror image of Google's U.S. research team in India. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited India a month later, unveiling a new campus and plans to hire hundreds of software engineers. "We want access to the phenomenal engineering talent graduating out of Indian universities," Ballmer told reporters. Intel hired 800 people in India last year, and CEO Craig Barrett last fall inaugurated construction of a new building...
Giants like Intel and Microsoft are bellwethers for other technology firms, but the seeds of globalized R. and D. were planted decades earlier. "The old model of research was Bell Labs'," says Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Working on everything from basic science to prototypes of new products, centralized labs produced landmarks like the transistor, and every major corporation had such incubators. That changed over the past 20 years, as businesses started to shift their R.-and-D. money away from basic science in centralized labs (they would rely on universities...