CIA announces CIA Labs, a skunkworks operation that will let its officers profit from their inventions in fields like AI, data analytics, and quantum computing
Who We Are — CIA Labs is a chartered member of the Federal Laboratory Consortium … Andrew Hayward / Decrypt : CIA Increases Blockchain Focus with Profit-Sharing R&D Lab Danny Nelson / CoinDesk : CIA's New Research Lab to Study Blockchain Tweets: @cia : Introducing... #CIALabs, joining @federallabs Today, we launched #CIALabs, a federal laboratory and in-house research and development arm for #CIA to drive science and tech breakthroughs for tomorrow's intel challenges. Learn more: https://www.cia.gov/... #MondayMotivation https://twitter.com/... Seamus Hughes / @seamushughes : “Officers...will be allowed to patent, license, and profit from their work, making 15% of the total income from the new invention with a cap of $150,000 per year. That could double most agency salaries and make the work more competitive w/ Silicon Valley” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...