Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, has been hired by the Department of Defense to lead the newly established Defense Innovation Advisory Board. In an announcment Wednesday morning, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced the new Board and said that it would provide advice and counsel on cutting edge technology, business analytics, process improvment and the cloud. This is the latest example of outreach by the federal government to Silicon Valley - a relationship that has freqently been rocky and most lately characterized by the battle between Apple and the FBI over encrypted technologies.
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