> I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways — securing software — and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built.

I don't have a date at hand but it was around the time of the war in Iraq.

A while after the quote was made (IIRC in a newspaper) the DARPA funding was cut.