Editing John Poindexter (section)

===Information Awareness Office===
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From January 2002 to August 2003, Poindexter served as the Director of the [[DARPA]] [[Information Awareness Office]] (IAO).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sutherland |first1=John |title=No more Mr Scrupulous Guy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4358017,00.html |website=The Guardian |access-date=17 November 2022 |location=UK |language=en |date=18 February 2002}}</ref> The mission of the IAO was to imagine, develop, apply, integrate, demonstrate and move information technologies, components, and prototype [[Control theory|closed-loop information systems]]. This aimed to counter asymmetric threats (most notably, terrorist threats) by achieving [[Information Awareness Office|total information awareness]] and thus aiding preemption, national security warning, and national security decision making.<ref name="SS1" /><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Hertzberg |first1=Hendrik |title=Too Much Information |url=https://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?021209ta_talk_hertzberg |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=17 November 2022 |date=9 December 2002 |archive-date=July 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731020648/http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?021209ta_talk_hertzberg |url-status=dead }}</ref>