The money to study the brain would support research by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation.

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Among the supporting organizations will be the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Science Foundation.

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No one from the National Security Agency or the defense sector testified.

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