So, I worked in SBIR space for 8 years. SBIR is a government prrogram designed to fund small businesses to do tech research.
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Here's a typical cybersecurity solicitation from the Air Force from the latest round. What the fuck are they even asking for???pic.twitter.com/0fOUvfnJt7
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"The focus of this research is on reconfiguration in the infrastructure of the application." Why are these English words in this order?
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It minimizes misinterpretations. "Application infrastructure reconfiguration is the research focus" seems efficient, but is easier to twist.
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That's the opposite. It's deliberately vague because they already know who they want to give money to.
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SBIR is what Congress did after the Beltway Bandits consolidated and cut their R&D spending to 4%.
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It is basically a supplementary R&D budget for these huge, profitable for-profit companies. Which is vacuumed up in predictable ways.
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In the rare case that an innovative company stumbles into one the only viable exit strategy is to sell to a Bandit.
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Because the DoD Does Not Buy Technology From Startups. No. So you have to sell to a Bandit for a pittance.
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Which means the only real players going after an SBIR are either amateurs, connected, or professional scammers.
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Anyway maybe this is all well known to you. It was eye opening and sad to me.
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I was unwittingly a professional scammer for my early career. Exiting was the best thing I ever did.
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It was a great way to funnel money to professors at $300/hr and get almost nothing in return. I have stories.
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Silicon Valley: "We want to disrupt everything except who has wealth, power, and security."
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