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Is DHS’s R & D too focused on short term?
By WDavidStephenson | December 21, 2007
Business Week, as part of a series on Homeland Security, focused on whether DHS’s R & D budget is too focused on short-term threats rather than funding long-term basic research?
I’m not convinced that’s the right question: IMHO, if the Pentagon is now more focused on fighting insurgencies worldwide (which are sorta the terrorists’ lab for new techniques that might be applied in Peoria) shouldn’t DARPA, which focuses solely on R & D, has a budget that will always eclipse DHS’s, has a much-better established approach, and which already tackles long-range issues, be the focus of this kind of over-the-horizon r & d? CONTINUED…
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