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Red Tape Will Strangle Labor Party’s Proposed DARPA-Lookalike: Defence Industry Expert

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2022 10:25 am
by claireokc
The opposition Australian Labor Party’s promise to establish a dedicated military research agency—akin to DARPA in the United States—will simply spawn bureaucratic red tape and struggle to deliver actual results, according to defence industry expert Lincoln Parker. On April 28, shadow ministers from the centre-left Labor party pledged to establish a brand-new agency within the Department of Defence, if elected, to fund “pivotal research in breakthrough technologies for national security.” The Advanced Strategic Research Agency (ASRA) would be geared towards working alongside the United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the United Kingdom’s newly established Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). ...

Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/red-tape- ... 35404.html