I knew that the US federal government had odd relationships with its technology contractors, but I didn't know that an entire program exists apparently to force the taxpayer to subsidize technology that it should therefore own---but it turns into a private tech monopoly, which (as with the company in the article) makes its money mostly from selling the resultant patented technology back to... the US Federal Government, which pays for it with... more taxpayer money.
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I knew that the US federal government had odd relationships with its technology contractors, but I didn't know that an entire program exists apparently to force the taxpayer to subsidize technology that it should therefore own---but it turns into a private tech monopoly, which (as with the company in the article) makes its money mostly from selling the resultant patented technology back to... the US Federal Government, which pays for it with... more taxpayer money.