All this talk of "why couldn't we prevent it or detect it" is a side effect of not even trying, instead funneling money to rich dudes.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
SBIR success stories are few and far between. We have pissed away hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars and gotten no return.
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All of that money could have been used to actually protect our digital infrastructure. Instead it's in white dudes' second homes.
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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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Replying to @matthew_d_green @EmilyGorcenski
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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Replying to @matthew_d_green @EmilyGorcenski
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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Replying to @matthew_d_green @EmilyGorcenski
Which means the only real players going after an SBIR are either amateurs, connected, or professional scammers.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @EmilyGorcenski
DOD does buy tech from startups in 2017 though, times are changing. DIUx solicited small biz cybersecurity products last week!
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Another: Army Innovation Challenge. A friend built his company on them, only gave up GPR IP, then sold commercially to Capital One.
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Success happens in reverse too. There's a crypto messenger that only discovered their applications in gov and found gov clients *via* SBIR.
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Nearly all the data for SBIR awards is public. This is begging for someone to pull it and see who abuses the program most.
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