http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-silicon-valley-hackers-still-wont-work-with-the-military-and-vice-versa
By Kari Paul
Contributor
Motherboard.vice.com
February 26, 2015
In the fight to defend cyberspace from its enemies, the US military is
rushing to hire as many skilled hackers as it can. But no one is really
sure how to get the two cultures to coexist.
Although the feds have implied they’re willing to loosen up some of their
policies so that weed-smoking, basement-dwelling hacker stereotypes can
work for government agencies, there are still some significant hurdles
preventing the two industries from working together in earnest.
At the first annual Future of War Conference on Wednesday, a panel of
experts weighed in on the simmering Silicon Valley culture clash after an
audience member asked why the US doesn’t just militarize Silicon Valley if
private sector technology is so far ahead of the government’s own.
“The real reason is DoD does not have a culture that would allow them in
any way shape or form to manage a silicon valley operation,” said Brad
Allenby, a faculty member at Arizona State University Center on the Future
of War. “Someone high on coke, Skittles and slinging code is not a good
candidate for basic training,” he later joked.
Peter Singer, a strategist and senior fellow at the think tank New America
Foundation, said the chasm between the private tech sector and the
government is only widening—a trend that will have big implications for
the “extraordinarily difficult” technological components of future war.
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