Government Initiatives

From MilcordWiki

• The MIT Technology Review article discusses TIGR (Tactical Ground Reporting System) developed by DARPA and fielded by the 1st Cavalry.
• The Peer to Patent Project opens the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent examination process to the public.
• Listen to Jon Udell's interview with Lewis Shepherd Senior Technical Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) on Intellipedia
• Listen to John Garstka - the Assistant Director, Concepts and Operations, Office of Force Transformation (OFT) discuss collaboration innovation required for Network Centric Warfare.
• Federal Research Public Access Act The bipartisan Federal Research Public Access Act, introduced on May 2, 2006 by Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT), would require that U.S. government agencies make manuscripts of journal articles stemming from research funded by Federal agencies publicly available via the Internet.