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Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt were recently named to a new Pentagon advisory board. Bezos also has financial interest in a company hoping to sell its product to the US military:
7/26/16, "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jeff Bezos Join Defense Innovation Board," DefenseNews.com, Aaron Mehta
"Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Amazon head Jeff Bezos and former
Obama administration official Cass Sunstein are among the newest names
to join Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s new Defense Innovation Advisory
Board.
Carter announced those names as part of a list of ten new
members for the board, which he created in March to advise the Pentagon
on technology innovation issues. The board is headed by Eric Schmidt,
executive chairman of Alphabet, the Google parent company....
But the biggest names are Tyson...and Bezos, the Amazon founder who also owns The Washington Post. Bezos is
also the head of Blue Origin, a space launch company working with the
United Launch Alliance to develop a new engine for military launch."...
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