Smart Dust - DARPA Military Technology
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Smart Dust - DARPA Military Technology
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Anthony Tether
Anthony J. Tether (born ca. 1942) served as director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from June 18, 2001, until February 20, 2009. As of September 8, 2009, Tether is a member of the SSCI Scientific Advisory Board. [http://www.ssci.com Scientific Systems Company, Inc.] (SSCI) is a developer of technology solutions for defense and industrial suppliers.
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Anup K. Ghosh
Dr. Anup K. Ghosh has served as a Senior Scientist and Program Manager in the Advanced Technology Office (ATO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he creates and manages programs in information assurance and information operations. Dr. Ghosh, was honored with the 2005 Frank Byron Rowlett Award for Individual Excellence for his breakthrough research into cyber defense to include technology that was supposed to automatically quarantines computer-based worms, limiting their migration and restoring the users computer to its pre-infected state within minutes. Whether the system met its goals or not is not publicly known. The Worcester Polytechnic Institute Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering selected Dr. Ghosh for the 2005 Hobart Newell Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Electrical and Computer Engineering Profession.
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Barry Boehm
Barry W. Boehm (1935) is an American software engineer, TRW Emeritus Professor of Software Engineering at the Computer Science Department of the University of Southern California, and known for his many contributions to software engineering.
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Bob Kahn
Robert Elliot Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an Internet pioneer,engineer and computer scientist who, along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.
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Charles M. Herzfeld
Charles M. Herzfeld (born June 29, 1925) is an American scientist and scientific manager, particularly for the US Government. He is best known for his time as Director of DARPA, during which, among other things, he personally took the decision to authorize the creation of the ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet.
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Douglas Engelbart
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925) is an American inventor and early computer pioneer. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world’s increasingly urgent and complex problems.
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Eberhardt Rechtin
Eberhardt Rechtin (January 16, 1926 – April 14, 2006) was an American systems engineer and respected authority in aerospace systems and systems architecture.
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George H. Heilmeier
George Harry Heilmeier (born May 22, 1936) is an American engineer and businessman, who was a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays.
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Gio Wiederhold
Gio Wiederhold (born June 24, 1936) is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Medicine and Electrical Engineering. His research focuses on large-scale systems design and evolution, specifically applied to information systems, the protection of their content, often using knowledge-based techniques. He has authored and coauthored more than 400 published papers and reports on computing and medicine and has served as the Editor-in-Chief of ACM TODS and as a program manager at DARPA. At DARPA (1991-1994) Gio initiated the I3 program.
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Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers.
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Jack Ruina
Jack P. Ruina (born ca. 1924) was professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1963 until 1997 and currently is a professor emeritus at MIT. From 1966 to 1970, he was also vice president for special laboratories at MIT.
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James Hendler
James Hendler (born April 2, 1957) is an artificial intelligence researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, and one of the originators of the Semantic Web.
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James Rollins
James Rollins and James Clemens are two of the pen names of American veterinarian Jim Czajkowski (born 1961), author of bestselling fantasy and action-packed adventure-thrillers. He sold his veterinary practice in Sacramento, California, to concentrate full-time on writing.
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John Poindexter
John Marlan Poindexter (born August 12, 1936) is a retired American naval officer and Department of Defense official. He was Deputy National Security Advisor and National Security Advisor for the Reagan administration. He was convicted in April 1990 of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran-Contra affair, but his convictions were reversed on appeal in 1991. More recently, he served a brief stint as the director of the DARPA Information Awareness Office for the George W. Bush administration.
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Mansfield Amendment
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Matthew Reilly
Matthew John "Matt" Reilly (born 2 July 1974 in Sydney) is an Australian action thriller writer. His novels are noted for their fast pace, twisting plots and intense action.
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Regina E. Dugan
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Robert Fano
Robert Mario Fano (born 1917 in Turin, Italy, as Roberto Mario Fano) is an Italian-American computer scientist, currently professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fano is known principally for his work on information theory, inventing (with Claude Shannon) Shannon-Fano coding. In the early 1960s, he was involved in the development of time-sharing computers, and served as director of MIT's Project MAC from its founding in 1963 until 1968.
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Robert Lamb Sproull (born ca. 1918) is a retired American educator, physicist, and US Department of Defense official.
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The Vietnam War was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to 15 May 1975 when the Mayaguez Incident concluded and two weeks after the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. The 'Mayaguez incident' involving the Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia on 12–15 May 1975, marked the last official battle of the United States (U.S.) involvement in the Vietnam War. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations.
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Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist who is recognized as one of
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DARPA's Bionic Arm
The US military is building an ambitious bionic arm that is controlled by thought and provides sensory feedback. Here's the latest prototype, showing the movements of the hand.
DARPA Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) program
In 2005, DARPA announced the Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) program and its goal to develop agile and flyers system that could fit in one hand. This video chronicles the development of a "hummingbird" flyer by Aerovironment from concept to prototype demonstration and introduction to the public. A number of difficult design and engineering challenges were overcome in the course of the program, particularly in the wing structure, propulsion and control actuators. Numerous complete prototypes were built and tested to assess and improve the performance of the systems shown in the video. The final prototype achieves the noteworthy milestone of 2-wing flapping hovering and fast forward flight with all power sources on the aircraft and all controls implemented through modulation of the wing strokes in a shape that resembles a real hummingbird and carries and on-board camera that relays video to the pilot in real time. For more information, please visit www.darpa.mil
DARPA/Boeing DiscRotor
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Boeing is studying the feasibility of the DiscRotor high-speed verticla-take-off and landing aircraft for DARPA. The aircraft takes off vertically like a helicopter, with telescoping rotor blades extended, then converts to fixed-wing forward flight by retrating the blades into the disc, which is then stopped. The aircraft the flies on its swept wing and dual ducted propellers. A 20%-scale model of the rotor will be windtunnel-tested in 2011.
AeroVironment/DARPA Nano Hummingbird UAV flying
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AeroVironment video of flight tests of its Nano Hummingbird flapping-wing nano air vehicle, developed for DARPA. Battery-powered and remote-controlled, the hummingbird-like prototype uses flapping wings for propulsion and control. Carring a video camera and downlink, the prototype has a wingspan of 16cm (9.5in) and weighs just 19 grams (0.66oz). It can hover for 8 minutes, remaining stable in gusts up to 5mph, and reach up to 11mph in forward flight.
DARPA Grand Challenge: Final Part 1
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Go to MYRIDE.COM for more car videos. Part one of the historic DARPA Grand Challenge Final.
remote controlled beetle by DARPA
An experience to remotely control a beetle to take off, land, turn right or left ... By www.crowded.fr
Weird DARPA Video - Unconventional Pathogen Countermeasures
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Darpa - Time Travel Andrew D. Basiago part 1
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- Published: 18 May 2011
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playlist www.youtube.com attorney Andrew D. Basiago shared an update on his truth campaign involving time travel technologies. In discussing a recent news story about DARPA's advancement in video surveillance that could end public anonymity, he declared that "DARPA had far surpassed the performance of this kind of technology 40 years ago when I was serving on Project Pegasus" (as a child). He believes we're being prepared for the eventual truth about chronovision (technology to view past or future events), as well as teleportation into different times. The chronovisor, he explained, "generates a hologram of a past or future event...by driving an electromagnetic signal through an octagonal, an eight-sided array of bismuth crystals." Basiago admitted that he hasn't seen the technologies since 1972 (when he left the program), and they may have been shelved, but, he added we do have some clues that chronovision persisted and was implemented by the US intelligence community. For more, see recaps from his show appearances on 11/11/09, and 11/11/10. He'll also be doing a speaking engagement this weekend in Los Angeles. Website: www.projectpegasus.net
DARPA Falcon hypersonic X-plane - part 1
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- Published: 14 Sep 2007
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DARPA computer-animated video of Lockheed Martin Skunk Work's Falcon HTV-3X hypersonic test vehicle
DARPA Falcon hypersonic X-plane - part 2
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DARPA computer-animated video of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works' Falcon HTV-3X hyersponic test vehicle
DARPA's Bionic Hand
The US military is building an ambitious bionic arm that is controlled by thought and provides sensory feedback. Here's the latest prototype, showing the movements of the hand.
Darpa Luke Arm
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- Published: 05 Feb 2008
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A robotic Arm. Star Wars come true www.neoteo.com
DARPA's Iron Curtain Active Protection System
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Edited DARPA video showing 2008 tests of the Artis-developed Iron Curtain anti-RPG active protection system for light tactical vehicles - here an HMMWV. DARPA in November 2009 awarded Mustang Technologies a contract to integrate Iron Curtain with its Crosshairs counter-shooter system for tests on an MRAP. Cued by the corner-mounted Crosshairs' radar, an optical sensor classifies the incoming threat and selects the aimpoint. When the RPG is just inches from the vehicle, the roof-mounted countermeasure fires straight down, deflagrating the warhead before it can detonate.
The DARPA Autonomous Robotic Manipulation (ARM) program
The DARPA Autonomous Robotic Manipulation (ARM) program is developing software that enables robots, given only high-level direction, to autonomously grasp, manipulate and perform complex tasks in unstructured environments. At the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, an ARM robot known as "Robbie" has been playing games with curious and intrigued visitors. The exhibit teaches visitors about how robotics can impact society and encourages young people to pursue careers in science and engineering. DARPA is also offering the public the opportunity to develop and test code to perform tasks in the robot simulator, then upload that code to an actual robot and watch it execute the task in real-time via the web. For more information on the ARM program and how to participate in the Outreach Track, please visit www.theARMrobot.com
Winning The DARPA Grand Challenge
Google TechTalks August 2, 2006 Sebastian Thrun ABSTRACT The DARPA grand challenge, technical details enabling Sebastian Thrun's win, and an introduction to the next phase called "The Urban Grand Challenge".
DARPA Time Travel 1
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DARPA Time Travel Date: 05-17-1 Host: George Noory Guests: Andrew D. Basiago, Michael Murphy In the first half, attorney Andrew D. Basiago shared an update on his truth campaign involving time travel technologies. In discussing a recent news story about DARPA's advancement in video surveillance that could end public anonymity, he declared that "DARPA had far surpassed the performance of this kind of technology 40 years ago when I was serving on Project Pegasus" (as a child). He believe we're being prepared for the eventual truth about chronovision(technology to view past or future events), as well as teleportation into different times. The chronovisor, he explained, "generates a hologram of a past or future event...by driving an electromagnetic signal through an octagonal, an eight-sided array of bismuth crystals." Basiago admitted that he hasn't seen the technologies since 1972(when he left the program), and they may have been shelved, but he added we do have some clues that chronovision persisted and was implemented by the US intelligence community. For more, see recaps from his show appearances on 11/11/09, and 11/11/10. He also be doing a speaking engagement this weekend in Los Angeles-----------------
DARPA Urban Challenge 2007
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Various video footage from the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge Finals, on November 3, 2007, in Victorville, CA.
DARPA & TIME TRAVEL Andrew D. Basiago Coast to Coast am 05-17-2011b.mov
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www.facebook.com www.projectpegasus.net In the first half, attorney Andrew D. Basiago shared an update on his truth campaign involving time travel technologies. In discussing a recent news story about DARPA's advancement in video surveillance that could end public anonymity, he declared that "DARPA had far surpassed the performance of this kind of technology 40 years ago when I was serving on Project Pegasus" (as a child).
Darpa - Time Travel Andrew D. Basiago part 2
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- Duration: 14:01
- Published: 18 May 2011
- Uploaded: 27 Jun 2011
- Author: cosmicpreachers2
playlist www.youtube.com attorney Andrew D. Basiago shared an update on his truth campaign involving time travel technologies. In discussing a recent news story about DARPA's advancement in video surveillance that could end public anonymity, he declared that "DARPA had far surpassed the performance of this kind of technology 40 years ago when I was serving on Project Pegasus" (as a child). He believes we're being prepared for the eventual truth about chronovision (technology to view past or future events), as well as teleportation into different times. The chronovisor, he explained, "generates a hologram of a past or future event...by driving an electromagnetic signal through an octagonal, an eight-sided array of bismuth crystals." Basiago admitted that he hasn't seen the technologies since 1972 (when he left the program), and they may have been shelved, but, he added we do have some clues that chronovision persisted and was implemented by the US intelligence community. For more, see recaps from his show appearances on 11/11/09, and 11/11/10. He'll also be doing a speaking engagement this weekend in Los Angeles. Website: www.projectpegasus.net
Darpa - Time Travel Andrew D. Basiago part 3
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- Duration: 14:01
- Published: 18 May 2011
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- Author: cosmicpreachers2
playlist www.youtube.com attorney Andrew D. Basiago shared an update on his truth campaign involving time travel technologies. In discussing a recent news story about DARPA's advancement in video surveillance that could end public anonymity, he declared that "DARPA had far surpassed the performance of this kind of technology 40 years ago when I was serving on Project Pegasus" (as a child). He believes we're being prepared for the eventual truth about chronovision (technology to view past or future events), as well as teleportation into different times. The chronovisor, he explained, "generates a hologram of a past or future event...by driving an electromagnetic signal through an octagonal, an eight-sided array of bismuth crystals." Basiago admitted that he hasn't seen the technologies since 1972 (when he left the program), and they may have been shelved, but, he added we do have some clues that chronovision persisted and was implemented by the US intelligence community. For more, see recaps from his show appearances on 11/11/09, and 11/11/10. He'll also be doing a speaking engagement this weekend in Los Angeles. Website: www.projectpegasus.net
GPS DARPA technical innovations
GPS: DARPA technical innovations.The military's innovation lab, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, creates the best technology in the world.
Win the DARPA Challenge
Director Regina E. Dugan announces the DARPA Network Challenge to mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet. The competition requires participants to discover the exact position of 10 large red weather balloons that DARPA will place in undisclosed locations across the continental United States on December 5, 2009. The first person to identify the location of all the balloons will win a $40000 cash prize. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director Regina Dugan isspeaking at UCLA's 40th Anniversary of the Internet celebration, hosted by Prof. Leonard Kleinrock, October 29, 2009. "The DARPA Network Challenge explores the unprecedented ability of the Internet to bring people together to solve tough problems." Forty years ago, the first Internet message was sent from the UCLA School of Engineering to the Stanford Research Institute.
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President Barack Obama is shown the DARPA (Defense Advance Research Project Agency) Car as he tours Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) in Pittsburgh, Friday, June 24, 2011.
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Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Dr. Donald C. Winter, gives his official SECNAV coin to Chuck Hilderth during the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Tech conference.
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iRobot headquarters in Bedford
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Rear Adm. Nevin P. Carr, Chief of Naval Research, leads an inter-agency panel on energy innovations and federal collaboration opportunities.
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Datalink USB Dress edition with Invasion video game. The watch crown (icontrol) can be used to move the defender left to right and the fire control is the Start/Split button on the lower side of the face of the watch at 6 o' clock
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British soldiers with captured German Goliath remote-controlled demolition vehicles (Battle of Normandy, 1944).
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Tactical Mobile Robot called "Urbie" (Nasa Photo) KLeo
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The Tactical Mobile Robot called "Urbie" (Nasa Photo) KLeo
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A plaque commemorating the birth of the Internet at Stanford University
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Typical low-cost webcam used with many personal computers
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X-31 (right) with F-18 (left)
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X-31 Quasi-Tailless over Edwards AFB
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Flat organization: DARPA avoids hierarchy, essentially operating at only two management levels to ensure the free and rapid flow of information and ideas, and rapid decision-making.
Autonomy and freedom from bureaucratic impediments: DARPA has an exemption from Title V civilian personnel specifications, which provides for a direct authority to hire talents with the expediency not allowed by the standard civil service process.
Eclectic, world-class technical staff and performers: DARPA seeks great talents and ideas from industry, universities, government laboratories, and individuals, mixing disciplines and theoretical and experimental strength. DARPA neither owns nor operates any laboratories or facilities, and the overwhelming majority of the research it sponsors is done in industry and universities. Very little of DARPA’s research is performed at government labs.
Teams and networks: At its very best, DARPA creates and sustains great teams of researchers from different disciplines that collaborate and share in the teams’ advances.
Hiring continuity and change: DARPA’s technical staff is hired or assigned for four to six years. Like any strong organization, DARPA mixes experience and change. It retains a base of experienced experts – its Office Directors and support staff – who are knowledgeable about DoD. The staff is rotated to ensure fresh thinking and perspectives, and to have room to bring technical staff from new areas into DARPA. It also allows the program managers to be bold and not fear failure.
Project-based assignments organized around a challenge model: DARPA organizes a significant part of its portfolio around specific technology challenges. It foresees new innovation-based capabilities and then works back to the fundamental breakthroughs required to make them possible. Although individual projects typically last three to five years, major technological challenges may be addressed over longer time periods, ensuring patient investment on a series of focused steps and keeping teams together for ongoing collaboration. Continued funding for DARPA projects is based on passing specific milestones, sometimes called “go/no-go’s.”
Outsourced support personnel: DARPA extensively leverages technical, contracting, and administrative services from other DoD agencies and branches of the military. This provides DARPA the flexibility to get into and out of an area without the burden of sustaining staff, while building cooperative alliances with its “agents.” These outside agents help create a constituency in their respective organizations for adopting the technology.
Outstanding program managers: The best DARPA program managers have always been freewheeling zealots in pursuit of their goals. The Director’s most important task is to recruit and hire very creative people with big ideas, and empower them.
Acceptance of failure: DARPA pursues breakthrough opportunities and is very tolerant of technical failure if the payoff from success will be great enough.
Orientation to revolutionary breakthroughs in a connected approach: DARPA historically has focused not on incremental but radical innovation. It emphasizes high-risk investment, moves from fundamental technological advances to prototyping, and then hands off the system development and production to the military services or the commercial sector.
Mix of connected collaborators: DARPA typically builds strong teams and networks of collaborators, bringing in a range of technical expertise and applicable disciplines, and involving university researchers and technology firms that are often not significant defense contractors or beltway consultants.
ARPA-E - a similar organization within the Department of Energy.
DSTL - UK equivalent
Defence Science and Technology Organisation - Australian Equivalent
HSARPA - a similar organization within the Department of Homeland Security
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)
Defence Research and Development Canada - Similar organization in Canada
People: Barry Boehm, Vint Cerf, Douglas Engelbart, Robert Fano, Anup K. Ghosh, James Hendler, Bob Kahn, JCR Licklider, John Poindexter, Larry Roberts, Robert Sproull, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, Gio Wiederhold.
History of the Internet
Castell, Manuel The Network Society: A Cross-cultural Perspective Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham UK 2004
"The Men from Darpa" by John Sedgwick, Playboy magazine, August 1991
DARPA Home Page
DARPA TransTac speech-to-speech translation project
Ongoing Research Programs
Defense Sciences Office
Information Processing Techniques Office
Microsystems Technology Office
Strategic Technology Office
Tactical Technology Office
Hybrid Insect MEMS
Surveillance Dust, DARPA website
Surveillance Dust, Conversation with C. Keers and N. Marano, U.S. Marine Corps. Background information provided by Dr. Bill Howard, Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DARPA Network Challenge 2009
| Agency name | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | kala pa |
| Logo | DARPA_Logo.jpg |
| Formed | 1958 |
| Headquarters | Arlington, Virginia |
| Employees | 240 |
| Budget | $3.2 billion |
| Chief1 name | Regina E. Dugan |
| Chief1 position | Director |
| Department | Department of Defense |
| Website | DARPA.mil |
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. DARPA has been responsible for funding the development of many technologies which have had a major effect on the world, including computer networking, as well as NLS, which was both the first hypertext system, and an important precursor to the contemporary ubiquitous graphical user interface.
Its original name was simply Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), but it was renamed to "DARPA" (for Defense) in March 1972, then renamed "ARPA" again in February 1993, and then renamed "DARPA" again in March 1996.
DARPA was established during 1958 (as ARPA) in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik during 1957, with the mission of keeping U.S. military technology more sophisticated than that of the nation's potential enemies. From DARPA's own introduction,
DARPA’s original mission, established in 1958, was to prevent technological surprise like the launch of Sputnik, which signaled that the Soviets had beaten the U.S. into space. The mission statement has evolved over time. Today, DARPA’s mission is still to prevent technological surprise to the US, but also to create technological surprise for its enemies.
DARPA is independent from other more conventional military R&D; and reports directly to senior Department of Defense management. DARPA has around 240 personnel (about 140 technical) directly managing a $3.2 billion budget. These figures are "on average" since DARPA focuses on short-term (two to four-year) projects run by small, purpose-built teams.
DARPA's mission
DARPA's own introduction: And to this list, DARPA would add unmanned systems, Global Positioning System (GPS) and Internet technologies.
DARPA’s approach is to imagine what capabilities a military commander might want in the future and accelerate those capabilities into being through technology demonstrations. These not only provide options to the commander, but also change minds about what is technologically possible today.
DARPA as a model
According to former DARPA Director Tony Tether and W. B. Bonvillian (“Power Play,” W. B. Bonvillian, The American Interest, Volume II, p 39, November-December 2006), DARPA's key characteristics to be replicated to reproduce DARPA's success are:Small and flexible: DARPA has only about 140 technical professionals; DARPA presents itself as “100 geniuses connected by a travel agent.”
ARPA/DARPA is well known as a high-tech government agency, and as such has many appearances in popular fiction. Some realistic references to ARPA in fiction are in Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X (DARPA consults on a technical threat), in episodes of television program The West Wing (the ARPA-DARPA distinction), the television program Numb3rs (DARPA research into creating the first self-aware computer), and in the motion picture Executive Decision (use of a one-of-a-kind experimental prototype in an emergency).
Other references often attribute to DARPA an operational or political role, in addition to its high-tech responsibilities. Examples are the Matthew Reilly books Temple and Hell Island, the James Rollins' books Sandstorm, Map of Bones and Black Order, and the video game series Metal Gear Solid, as well as the video games Infamous and Vanquish.
In the 2010 film Edge of Darkness Detective Craven is told his daughter Emma worked for a fictional nuclear R&D; company who was in fact developing "foreign nuclear arms". Emma was said to have been flagged by DARPA as a possible security risk.
In the 2010 videogame Vanquish, developed by Platinum Games, the protagonist is a DARPA employee who is using an experimental suit designed by the company to fight a war with Russian forces.
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