IP: "DARPA, Brought to You By Lockheed"

[David Farber <dfarber@earthlink.net>]

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From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <Ross.Stapleton-Gray@ucop.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:20:36 
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: "DARPA, Brought to You By Lockheed"

This strikes me as yet another one of those "camel's nose under the tent" 
developments, akin to school materials underwritten by snack food 
vendors... government services ought to be paid for by taxes (one's opinion 
of the amount of government services, and appropriate sources for 
taxes,  may vary), rather than by taking Federal agencies the NASCAR route...

OMB floats e-gov 'branding' strategy
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0415/news-forman-04-15-02.asp

...
But co-branding, like advertising, could raise objections because the 
practice could be considered an implicit government endorsement of one 
vendor's solution over another, said a lawyer who works with government and 
industry on e-commerce issues and who asked to remain anonymous.
OMB has had trouble securing funding for the e-government initiatives, with 
little or no funds being appropriated for the projects. Offering a vendor a 
co-branding opportunity may be the only way to gain access to the 
commercial portals, the lawyer said, without paying a lot of money.
...



Ross Stapleton-Gray
IT Security Officer
University of California Office of the President
510-587-6152


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