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Dear DARPA: Profit is not a dirty word
I’ve spent an entire career writing about the government and there are still many things I don t know or understand.
At the top of that list is the government’s concern with the profits of its contractors. Government officials will talk about the need for a healthy and profitable private sector, along with how the private sector needs to be incentivized to bring innovation into the market.
That makes sense to me and I agree with that.
But the government seems to not want companies to make too much profit and that is where the logic starts to fall apart for me. That’s how I felt when I read through a recent DARPA solicitation.
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