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And of course there are the problems of 'institutionalizing' a new program within a large institution.

Over at NASA there is a small group of committed individuals that are great advocates for FIRST.

There needs to be a committed advocacy within DOD to make it work there as well. Allocating some funding to be available to the spread around to bases would be pretty cool. I can think of quite a few installations that could tap into that if there was funding and a streamlined application process.

You would think local sites like SPAWAR, NRL, Army Research, Warner Robins, etc would be glad to get on board if there was a fastpath. In fact I know they would.