IP: Chief Takes Over New Agency to Thwart Attacks on U.S.

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <Ross.Stapleton-Gray () ucop edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:35:22 -0800
To: declan () well com, farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: did either of you see this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/politics/13DARP.html?pagewanted=print

Chief Takes Over New Agency to Thwart Attacks on U.S.
By JOHN MARKOFF

John M. Poindexter, the retired Navy admiral who was President Ronald
Reagan's national security adviser, has returned to the Pentagon to direct
a new agency that is developing technologies to give federal officials
instant access to vast new surveillance and information- analysis systems.

The Information Awareness Office, which Mr. Poindexter took over last
month, is one of two new agencies that the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, or Darpa, created in recent months as part of the Bush
administration's effort to grapple with new kinds of military threats after
the attacks of Sept. 11.
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Ross Stapleton-Gray
IT Security Officer
University of California Office of the President
510-587-6152




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