Scientific innovation has been driving US economic growth for decades. Losing that edge means losing access to the technologies and brainpower that come with it.
Not really. DARPA is only getting $4.9B of the US’s $181.4B research budget this year. For comparison, the NIH is getting nearly 10x what DARPA is getting.
A lot of people have a very weird understanding of what DARPA does.
DARPA also gets funding from other, more indirect routes as well though. Most black budget projects go there or split between them and Lockheed, bell, etc. You’re just looking at the finance spread sheets, which are known to be completely fucked.
Also I wasn’t being entirely serious, but it’s not just DARPA either. For instance biological research going into designing new biological/viral and chemical weapons. The point was more that we spend very little taxpayer money to do things that benefit humanity.
It’s way worse than that, because they get more value per unit of spend. This further confirms that China is way out in front.
I think we’re past this point, too. We no longer value or understand our position.
All of our research money goes to DARPA
Not really. DARPA is only getting $4.9B of the US’s $181.4B research budget this year. For comparison, the NIH is getting nearly 10x what DARPA is getting.
A lot of people have a very weird understanding of what DARPA does.
DARPA also gets funding from other, more indirect routes as well though. Most black budget projects go there or split between them and Lockheed, bell, etc. You’re just looking at the finance spread sheets, which are known to be completely fucked.
Also I wasn’t being entirely serious, but it’s not just DARPA either. For instance biological research going into designing new biological/viral and chemical weapons. The point was more that we spend very little taxpayer money to do things that benefit humanity.