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High-wire act: How to unify research and procurement with a tight budget Olivia Letts and Stephen Rodriguez 4 days ago (AlexSava/Getty Images) Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Congress: “The [Defense Department’s] problem is not innovation, but innovation adoption. Its outdated, industrial age budgeting process creates a valley of death for new technology, allowing basic research and also procurement of weapons systems, but preventing the flexible investment needed in prototypes, concepts, and experimentation of new concepts and technologies like [artificial intelligence].” In his statement, he succinctly addressed the tension that appropriators face: To address American national security priorities, should more funding be directed toward research or procurement?
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Subscriber only Mesmeric coral reefs and seagrass beds throughout Central Queensland will live longer thanks to a partnership involving Gladstone Ports Corporation. GPC has teamed up with Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service to install $113,500 worth of reef protection infrastructure, south of Gladstone. QPWS rangers worked with Gidarjil Land and Sea Country Rangers and local contractors to install six of the environmentally friendly vessel moorings (EFMs). The large team also installed six reef protection markers at Pancake Creek, located approximately 20 kilometres north of the Town of 1770. The project was all part of GPC s Biodiversity Offset Strategy partnering with QPWS Reef Protection Program which aimed to reduce the impacts of anchor damage on sensitive coral reef and seagrass communities.