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| The question only earned Warwick a brief look of Dunn spent the next day going over the project history in his hotel room. He started by looking at the contract objectives. They outlined a project to create: "mobile software-based agents capable of invading enemy computer systems and rendering them ineffective. Targets to include strict military systems (e.g. battlefield control, upper atmosphere radar, missile guidance) and operations support systems (e.g. telephone switch, weather prediction, transportation scheduling)." What D.O.D. liked about the Boreskovich approach was the delayed targeting capability of his design. This would allow the software agent to be deployed without a mission assignment. After taking position behind enemy lines, a set of primary and secondary targets could be transmitted to it. Therefore, if the agent was detected during its most visible phase, insertion, the enemy would learn nothing about mission objectives. With this much budget down the tubes, Dunn knew the Pentagon needed a detailed project termination report on this one. He would have to write two versions: a politically-correct release for Congress and a wide open version for General Stockton. Standard procedure. Stockton's would include recommendations for project-related personnel. Dunn went over the lead researchers' backgrounds.
Up until 1993, things were pretty laid back. But then the Gulf War made smart technology and anti-smart technology real popular in D.C. circles. Military and political attention demanded more wiz-bang stuff. Playing in the limelight meant produce or be canceled. Boreskovich made delivery promises in return for budget increases. The money was spent, but the delivery dates were missed. Two rounds of that routine and enter Malcolm Dunn.
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