Understanding the nature of each organization involved -- how both motivations and expectations shift as one moves between orgnaizational barriers -- is perhaps the most important, worst reported, least understood part of this story.<p>If the SEI took money to, essentially, weaponize unpublished research, the issue is <i>not</i> one an IRB would have prevented. DoD contractors aren&#x27;t bound by scientific codes of conduct. In light of that realization, the suggestion in this blog post is confusing.<p>(BTW, distancing CMU and the SEI is not meant as a defense of CMU -- close ties between public science and law enforcement&#x2F;military R&amp;D are as troubling as ever...)