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[apljack]

MNTA: and FDA work

Can anyone tell us why MNTA did not charge the government, or conversely, why the government didn't pay for the work? Did the govt. offer to pay and MNTA turned them down?

I'm trying to think of a parallel situation. Say the govt needs to find a threat via analysis of huge amounts of internet data and ask IBM, with their Deep Blue computer, to help them with the analysis as they have unique capacity to perform the analysis. IBM certainly has many government contracts also pending with the fed for equipment sales, but complies with the govt's request to help with the threat analysis. Conflict of interest? Appearance of conflict of interest?

Wouldn't it be nice for the fed to address this by sending MNTA a nice check for the work they did?

aj