Pentagon technology chief Mike Griffin ended the Defense Department's long-standing contract with a group of high-level scientists known as JASON because he felt the group wasn’t worth funding anymore, arguing DOD would be better off using other avenues for independent technical analysis, according to government officials. DOD's last-minute decision not to renew the contract has left Congress and other federal agencies who still rely on JASON scrambling to find a new way to support the group and the studies it...
