Regina E. Dugan, the Director of the Pentagon’s research section(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), has began to tour college campuses to build research relationships. With the Bush Administration secrecy was the modus-operandi. The Pentagon must put it’s best foot forward to win back these relationships with the scholarly world.

So far the schools listed on the tour include: University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; the University of California, Los Angeles; Virginia Tech; Texas A&M, and the California Institute of Technology.

Secrecy was not the only reason for the severance of Pentagon / university relationships. Under the leadership of Anthony J. Tether, a number of controversial research projects were the focus of the government, which included the proposed Total Information Awareness system.