<story><title>Tesla researcher is &apos;excited&apos; about new battery tech developed by the Army</title><url>https://electrek.co/2019/05/13/tesla-battery-researcher-new-battery-tech-army/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boh</author><text>For those who believe governments only serve to stifle innovation, please take heed to this counter example(before the Silicon Valley PR machine recasts the research as a work of its own genius).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dexen</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a fine sentiment. Tor is another good example of innovation ran by the (US) Navy. Which is to be expected, as navies traditionally were big into crypto.&lt;p&gt;The military has long history of both doing their own research (logistics &amp;amp; management, and cryptography being good examples), running research institutes with civilian employees (as it seems to be in this case), and contracting out R&amp;amp;D to run-of-the-mill civilian institutions (half of the SV on a good day).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s worth remembering that the military in typical country is set up with certain similarities to free market economy: it negotiates budget with the &amp;quot;customer&amp;quot; (government), it has several major branches that fiercely compete with each other (typically air force, army, navy; US also rolls with marines as a separate branch), and there are vertical &amp;amp; lateral transfers of employees at times. Lastly, there&amp;#x27;s always the competing militaris abroad ;-)&lt;p&gt;Heck, one of common view of the Cold War is that of NATO bankrupting the Soviet block via military arms race.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tesla researcher is &apos;excited&apos; about new battery tech developed by the Army</title><url>https://electrek.co/2019/05/13/tesla-battery-researcher-new-battery-tech-army/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boh</author><text>For those who believe governments only serve to stifle innovation, please take heed to this counter example(before the Silicon Valley PR machine recasts the research as a work of its own genius).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nathan_long</author><text>See also: ARPANET, forerunner of the internet.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet-switching network and the first network to implement the TCP&amp;#x2F;IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. The ARPANET was initially founded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense.
&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;ARPANET&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;ARPANET&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Where Wizards Stay Up Late&amp;quot; by Katie Hafner is an entertaining chronicle of its creation.</text></comment>