NSF Survey of R&D Expenditures at FFRDCs FY Nsf Form

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What's your message to those of us in the FFRDC community about how we can address the perceived gap between Silicon Valley and the FFRDCs. You may not know this Bill, but a long long time ago - more than 30 years ago - when Jim Schlesinger was Chairman of the Board and I was in my 20s I guess, he asked me to join the MITRE Board. Brent Scowcroft was a member then, Bill Perry was a member, John Deutsch, it's quite a great group and it was one of the things that got me convinced to turn my career from pure physics, which was my field, to physics with a mission namely National Defense and MITRE was instrumental in my personal life and per your question it's been instrumental in the national life. The way to understand its role in the ecosystem is to go back to the origins. MITRE was created in the wake of Sputnik to put something between for-profit industry and the government that could be technically excellent, free of conflict of interest, totally mission focused, trustable by the gove