They've probably done something useful in the past, but muhseekrits!
One thing is certain though; virtually every new president since George H.W. Bush, they've rolled out this very same article. "You're ruining my MITRE sinecure," basically. Obviously, it's not happened yet, and the actual substance of the events described is probably well short of the apocalypse which I must have read at least a dozen times in the last 25 years.
It's a tribute to the Jason dudes they have decent PR. They may even have done something useful once upon a time. The crap they do now is... doubtful. Mostly because almost all academics outside of something like chemistry seem to be engaged in doubtful work.
One thing is certain though; virtually every new president since George H.W. Bush, they've rolled out this very same article. "You're ruining my MITRE sinecure," basically. Obviously, it's not happened yet, and the actual substance of the events described is probably well short of the apocalypse which I must have read at least a dozen times in the last 25 years.
It's a tribute to the Jason dudes they have decent PR. They may even have done something useful once upon a time. The crap they do now is... doubtful. Mostly because almost all academics outside of something like chemistry seem to be engaged in doubtful work.