>>12938030>MIT LL is not a government agency >>The MIT Lincoln Laboratory, located in Lexington, Massachusetts, is a United States Department of Defense federally funded research and development centeYou can be right in a certain sense and still be completely wrong in every sense that matters.
The fact is the United States has been in a consistent state of full war research mobilization since 1940, this has taken many forms over the years, from air force funding laboratories to venture captiol funds where the government takes stock in private companies and helps direct the direction of their research. Much of which can be classified at times.
If you are interested in this subjet I suggest the book “America Inc.?: Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) “ by Linda Weiss, 2014 [dont confuse it with AMERICA , INC. 1972 or the Ralph Nader book]
