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DARPA's Funding Model and Procurement Process
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DARPA and the US government in Congress introduced a new funding model where funding was based on outcomes rather than efforts. The procurement process required stacks of paper to describe the research project, and the contractors used to getting paid per hour were automatically drawn out due to the lack of a tax code that allowed the use of congressional tax money for a price.

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