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systems and can steer the optical beam far faster than mechanical components. Research and design electronic-photonic unit cells that can be tiled together to form large-scale planar apertures (up to 10 centimeters in diameter) that can run at 100 watts of optical power. The overall goals of such technology are (1) rapid 3D scanning using devices smaller than a cell-phone camera; (2) high-speed laser communications without mechanical steering; (3) and foliage-penetrating perimeter sensing, remote wind sensing, and long-range 3-D mapping. As of fiscal year 2020, Analog Photonics LLC of Boston, Massachusetts, was working on phase 3 of the program and is expected to finish by May 2022.

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threat of underground facilities used for purposes ranging from command-and-control, to weapons storage and staging, to the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction. SPO developed significantly more cost-effective ways to counter proliferated, inexpensive cruise missiles, UAVs, and other platforms used for weapon delivery, jamming, and surveillance. SPO invested in novel space technologies across the spectrum of space control applications including rapid access, space situational awareness, counterspace, and persistent tactical grade sensing approaches including extremely large space apertures and structures.

1210:(2019): The program seeks to demonstrate an experimental aircraft design based on active flow control (AFC), which is defined as on-demand addition of energy into a boundary layer in order to maintain, recover, or improve aerodynamic performance. The aim is for CRANE to generally improve aircraft performance and reliability while reducing cost. In May 2023, DARPA designated the experimental uncrewed aircraft the X-65 which will use banks of compressed air nozzles to execute maneuvers without traditional, exterior-moving flight controls. 1050: 1014: 45: 2324: 1573:(2018): by building on concepts theorized in the SIGMA program, develop new sensors and analytics to detect small traces of explosives and chemical and biological weaponry throughout any given large metropolitan area. In October 2021, SIGMA+ program, in collaboration with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD), concluded a three-month-long pilot study with new sensors to support early detection and interdictions of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats. 12681: 746: 2338: 306: 36: 973: 878:, monitoring, and predictive activity system on trails used by insurgents in Laos, Cambodia, and the Republic of Vietnam. This was done from an office in Bangkok, Thailand, that was ostensibly established to catalog and support the Thai fishing fleet, of which two volumes were published. This is a personal recollection without a published citation. A report on the ARPA group under which OSD operated is found here. 705: 726: 1248:(ERI) (2019): Started in 2019, the initiative aims at both national security capabilities and commercial economic competitiveness and sustainability. These programs emphasize forward-looking partnerships with U.S. industry, the defense industrial base, and university researchers. In 2023, DARPA expanded ERI's focus with the announcement of ERI 2.0 seeking to reinvent domestic microelectronics manufacturing. 782:: DSO identifies and pursues high-risk, high-payoff research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines and transforms them into important, new game-changing technologies for U.S. national security. Current DSO themes include novel materials and structures, sensing and measurement, computation and processing, enabling operations, collective intelligence, and global change. 288: 1143:: Cancer research. (2015) The program aims to develop technology to read research abstracts and papers to extract pieces of causal mechanisms, assemble these pieces into more complete causal models, and reason over these models to produce explanations. The domain of the program is cancer biology with an emphasis on signaling pathways. It has a successor program called 2845:"The staff of ARPA saw an opportunity to redefine the agency as a group that would take on the really advanced "far-out" research....The scientific community, predictably, rallied to the call for a reinvention of ARPA as a "high-risk high-gain" research sponsor— the kind of R& D shop they had dreamed of all along" Lyon, Matthew; Hafner, Katie (1999-08-19). 747: 749: 1458:): developing a new mobile ground-launched booster that helps hypersonic boost glide weapons penetrate enemy air defenses. As of 17 July 2020, Lockheed Martin was working on phase 3 of the program (develop propulsion components for the missile's Stage 2 section) to be completed by January 2022. The system was successfully tested in July 2022. 706: 727: 708: 729: 750: 448:(GPS). "Fast-forward to 1959 when a joint effort between DARPA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory began to fine-tune the early explorers' discoveries. TRANSIT, sponsored by the Navy and developed under the leadership of Richard Kirschner at Johns Hopkins, was the first satellite positioning system." 1388:(UUVs) capable of long-duration missions and having large payload capacities. In December 2021, DARPA awarded Phase 2 contracts to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation and Martin Defense Group to work on subsystem testing followed by fabrication and in-water demonstrations of full-scale integrated vehicles. 1972:(HELLADS) The goal of the HELLADS program was to develop a 150 kilowatt (kW) laser weapon system. In 2015, DARPA's contractor, General Atomics, successfully demonstrated a prototype. In 2020, General Atomics and Boeing announced to develop a 100 kW liquid laser system, with plans to scale it up to 250 kW. 604:, under a research contract from DARPA. The vehicle was 17 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 10.5 feet high, and had six legs to support its three-ton aluminum body, in which it was designed to carry cargo over difficult terrains. However, DARPA lost interest in the ASV, after problems with cold-weather tests. 1551:

Semantic Forensics (SemaFor) program: develop technologies to automatically detect, attribute, and characterize falsified media (e.g., text, audio, image, video) to defend against automated disinformation. SRI International of Menlo Park, California, and Kitware Inc. of Clifton, New York, are working

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AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) (2023): It is a two-year competition to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI in partnership with Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI which will provide their expertise and their platforms for this competition. There will be a semifinal phase and the final

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During the late 1960s, with the transfer of these mature programs to the Services, ARPA redefined its role and concentrated on a diverse set of relatively small, essentially exploratory research programs. The agency was renamed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1972, and during

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Urban Reconnaissance through Supervised Autonomy (URSA) program: develop technology for use in cities to enable autonomous systems that U.S. infantry and ground forces operate to detect and identify enemies before U.S. troops come across them. Program will factor in algorithms, multiple sensors, and

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Securing Information for Encrypted Verification and Evaluation (SIEVE) program: use zero knowledge proofs to enable the verification of capabilities for the US military "without revealing the sensitive details associated with those capabilities." Galois Inc. of Portland, Oregon, and Stealth Software

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Lasers for Universal Microscale Optical Systems (LUMOS): integrate heterogeneous materials to bring high performance lasers and amplifiers to manufacturable photonics platforms. As of fiscal year 2020, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY) was working to enable "on-chip

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MEMEX (2014-2017): an online search tool to fight human trafficking crimes on the dark web. In 2016, DARPA Memex program received the 2016 Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons for the development of the anti-trafficking technology tool. The program was named

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underwater network, heterogeneous: develop concepts and reconfigurable architecture, leveraging advancement in undersea communications and autonomous ocean systems, to demonstrate utility at sea. Raytheon BBN is currently working on this program, with work expected through 4 May 2021, though if the

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Secure Advanced Framework for Simulation & Modeling (SAFE-SiM) program: build a rapid modeling and simulation environment to enable quick analysis in support of senior-level decision-making. As of fiscal year 2020, Radiance Technologies and L3Harris were working on portions of the program, with

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Multi- Azimuth Defense Fast Intercept Round Engagement System (MAD-FIRES) program: develop technologies that combine advantages of a missile (guidance, precision, accuracy) with advantages of a bullet (speed, rapid-fire, large ammunition capacity) to be used on a medium-caliber guided projectile in

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researched, developed, demonstrated, and transitioned technologies focused on addressing present and emerging national challenges. SPO investments ranged from the development of enabling technologies to the demonstration of large prototype systems. SPO developed technologies to counter the emerging

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Between 1976 and 1981, DARPA's major projects were dominated by air, land, sea, and space technology, tactical armor and anti-armor programs, infrared sensing for space-based surveillance, high-energy laser technology for space-based missile defense, antisubmarine warfare, advanced cruise missiles,

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Open, Programmable, Secure 5G (OPS-5G) (2020): The program is to address security risks of 5G networks by pursuing research leading to the development of a portable standards-compliant network stack for 5G mobile that is open source and secure by design. OPS-5G seeks to create open source software

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LongShot (2021): The program is to demonstrate an unmanned air-launched vehicle (UAV) capable of employing air-to-air weapons. Phase 1 design work started in early 2021. In June 2023, DARPA awarded a Phase 3 contract to General Atomics for the manufacturing and a flight demonstration in 2025 of an

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Gamma Ray Inspection Technology (GRIT) program: research and develop high-intensity, tunable, and narrow-bandwidth gamma ray production in compact, transportable form. This technology can be utilized for discovering smuggled nuclear material in cargo via new inspection techniques, and enabling new

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in a meeting called after the launch of Sputnik. ARPA was formally authorized by President Eisenhower in 1958 for the purpose of forming and executing research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, and able to reach far beyond immediate military requirements.

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combined areas of the Defense Sciences Office and the Defense Manufacturing Office. This new office will focus on the boundary between general-purpose computers and the physical world, such as sensors, displays and the first few layers of specialized signal-processing that couple these modules to

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was established later in 1958 all space projects and most of ARPA's funding were transferred to it. Johnson resigned and ARPA was repurposed to do "high-risk", "high-gain", "far out" basic research, a posture that was enthusiastically embraced by the nation's scientists and research universities.

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Sea Train (2019): The program goal is to develop and demonstrate ways to overcome range limitations in medium unmanned surface vessels by exploiting wave-making resistance reductions. Applied Physical Sciences Corp. of Groton, Connecticut, is undertaking Phase 1 of the Sea Train program, with an

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Modular Optical Aperture Building Blocks (MOABB) program (2015): design free-space optical components (e.g., telescope, bulk lasers with mechanical beam-steering, detectors, electronics) in a single device. Create a wafer-scale system that is one hundred times smaller and lighter than existing

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Joint All-Domain Warfighting Software (JAWS): software suite featuring automation and predictive analytics for battle management and command & control with tactical coordination for capture ("target custody") and kill missions. Systems & Technology Research of Woburn, Massachusetts, is

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Air Combat Evolution (ACE) (2019): The goal of ACE is to automate air-to-air combat, enabling reaction times at machine speeds. By using human-machine collaborative dogfighting as its challenge problem, ACE seeks to increase trust in combat autonomy. Eight teams from academia and industry were

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Additionally, the political and defense communities recognized the need for a high-level Department of Defense organization to formulate and execute R&D projects that would expand the frontiers of technology beyond the immediate and specific requirements of the Military Services and their

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A list of DARPA's active and archived projects is available on the agency's website. Because of the agency's fast pace, programs constantly start and stop based on the needs of the U.S. government. Structured information about some of the DARPA's contracts and projects is publicly available.

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DARPA is independent of other military research and development and reports directly to senior Department of Defense management. DARPA comprises approximately 220 government employees in six technical offices, including nearly 100 program managers, who together oversee about 250 research and

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core mission is the development of high-performance, intelligent microsystems and next-generation components to ensure U.S. dominance in Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), Electronic Warfare (EW), and Directed Energy (DE). The

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In recent years, DARPA officials have contracted out core functions to corporations. For example, during fiscal year 2020, Chenega ran physical security on DARPA's premises, System High Corp. carried out program security, and Agile Defense ran unclassified IT services. General Dynamics runs

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constellations and mesh networks of lower size, weight, and cost spacecraft nodes.' ... The idea is to demonstrate that 'good enough' payloads in LEO can perform military missions, augment existing programs, and potentially perform 'on par or better than currently deployed exquisite space

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Fast Network Interface Cards (FastNICs): develop and integrate new, clean-slate network subsystems in order to speed up applications, such as the distributed training of machine learning classifiers by 100x. Perspecta Labs and Raytheon BBN were working on FastNICs as of fiscal year

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defending ships. Raytheon is currently working on MAD-FIRES phase 3 (enhance seeker performance, and develop a functional demonstration illuminator and engagement manager to engage and defeat a representative surrogate target) and is expected to be finished by November 2022.

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Sensor plants: DARPA "is working on a plan to use plants to gather intelligence information" through DARPA's Advanced Plant Technologies (APT) program, which aims to control the physiology of plants in order to detect chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats.

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scientific knowledge about human behavior to determine subtle differences between hostiles and innocent civilians. Soar Technology Inc. of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is currently working on pertinent vehicle autonomy technology, with work expected completed by March 2022.

1254:(formerly XS-1): In 2017, Boeing was selected for Phases 2 and 3 for the fabrication and flight of a reusable unmanned space transport after it completed the initial design in Phase 1 as one of the three teams. In January 2020, Boeing ended its role in the program. 1464:(PCAS): DARPA created the program in 2010 to seek to fundamentally increase Close Air Support effectiveness by enabling dismounted ground agents—Joint Terminal Attack Controllers—and combat aircrews to share real-time situational awareness and weapons systems data. 290: 1423:

Millimeter-wave GaN Maturation (MGM) program: develop new GaN transistor technology to attain high-speed and large voltage swing at the same time. HRL Laboratories LLC, a joint venture between Boeing and General Motors, is working on phase 2 as of fiscal year

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TCTO's mission was to develop new crosscutting capabilities from a broad range of emerging technological and social trends, particularly in areas related to computing and computing-reliant subareas of the life sciences, social sciences, manufacturing, and

1609:(Tern)(2014): The program seeks to develop ship based UAS systems and technologies to enable a future air vehicle that could provide persistent ISR and strike capabilities beyond the limited range and endurance provided by existing helicopter platforms. 5735: 1173:" Blue Canyon Technologies, Raytheon, and SA Photonics Inc. were working on phases 2 and 3 as of fiscal year 2020. On June 12, 2023 DARPA launched four satellites for a technology demonstration in low Earth orbit on the SpaceX Transporter-8 rideshare. 1137:(ISS) announced in April 2023 that Rhodium-DARPA Biomanufacturing 01 investigation was launched on SpaceX, and ISS crew members are carrying out this project which examines gravity's effect on production of drugs and nutrients from bacteria and yeast. 1222:(2023): The DTC will use a series of challenge events to spur development of novel physiological features for medical triage. The three-year competition focuses on improving emergency medical response in military and civilian mass casualty incidents. 1526: 334:) (Public Law 85-325) and Department of Defense Directive 5105.15, in February 1958. It was placed within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and counted approximately 150 people. Its creation was directly attributed to the launching of 1207: 1577: 1289:

Glide Breaker program: technology for an advanced interceptor capable of engaging maneuvering hypersonic vehicles or missiles in the upper atmosphere. Northrop Grumman and Aerojet Rocketdyne were working on this program as of fiscal year

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The threat is real enough that the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded a Media Forensics project aimed at finding ways to automatically screen for Deepfake videos and similarly deceptive examples of digital

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had developed the capacity to rapidly exploit military technology. Initial funding of ARPA was $ 520 million. ARPA's first director, Roy Johnson, left a $ 160,000 management job at General Electric for an $ 18,000 job at ARPA.

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expected completion date of March 2022. Sea Train, NOMARS and Manta Ray are the three programs that could significantly impact naval operations by extending the range and payloads for unmanned vessels on and below the surface.

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fosters, demonstrates, and transitions breakthrough fundamental research, discoveries, and applications that integrate biology, engineering, and computer science for national security. Created in April 2014 by then Director

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SIGMA: A network of radiological detection devices the size of smart phones that can detect small amounts of radioactive materials. The devices are paired with larger detector devices along major roads and bridges.

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in 1957. By collaborating with academia, industry, and government partners, DARPA formulates and executes research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, often beyond immediate

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engages in high-risk, high-payoff advanced military research, emphasizing the "system" and "subsystem" approach to the development of aeronautic, space, and land systems as well as embedded processors and control

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selected in October 2019. In April 2024, DARPA and U.S. Air Force announced that ACE conducted the first-ever in-air dogfighting tests of AI algorithms autonomously flying an F-16 against a human-piloted F-16.

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or Hypersonic Research Program. The Strategic Computing Program enabled DARPA to exploit advanced processing and networking technologies and to rebuild and strengthen relationships with universities after the

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laboratories. In pursuit of this mission, DARPA has developed and transferred technology programs encompassing a wide range of scientific disciplines that address the full spectrum of national security needs.

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Detection system consisting of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-based assays paired with reconfigurable point-of-need and massively multi-plexed devices for diagnostics and

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on the list of innovations for which DARPA can claim at least partial credit." Its track record of success has inspired governments around the world to launch similar research and development agencies.

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Binary structure inference system: extract software properties from binary code to support repository-based reverse engineering for micro-patching that minimizes lifecycle maintenance and costs (2020).

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with distributed capabilities to provide low-cost flexibility over expensive multirole platforms. In October 2021, two X-61 Gremlin air vehicles were tested at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

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On February 4, 2004, the agency shut down its so called "LifeLog Project". The project's aim would have been, "to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does".

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requirements. The name of the organization first changed from its founding name, ARPA, to DARPA, in March 1972, changing back to ARPA in February 1993, then reverted to DARPA in March 1996.

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SSITH: System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware - secure hardware platform (2017); basis for open-source, hack-proof voting system project and 2019 system prototype contract

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researched, demonstrated, and developed high payoff projects in maritime, communications, special operations, command and control, and information assurance and survivability mission areas.

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program. The goal of this program is to create a lightly armored combat vehicle of not very large dimensions, which, due to maneuverability and other tricks, can successfully resist modern

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DARPA has six technical offices that manage the agency's research portfolio, and two additional offices that manage special projects. All offices report to the DARPA director, including:

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writes of Belfiore's book that "His tone is reverential and at times breathless, but he captures the agency's essential virtues: boldness, creativity, agility, practicality and speed." (

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Waste Upcycling for Defense (WUD) (2023): to turn scrap wood, cardboard, paper, and other cellulose-derived matter into sustainable materials such as building materials for re-use.

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will have responsibility associated with the Presidential High-Performance Computing Initiative. The Software office will also be responsible for "software systems technology,

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projects in ballistic missile defense and nuclear test detection, couched in terms of basic research, were the top priorities." Lyon, Matthew; Hafner, Katie (1999-08-19).

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DARPA is well known as a high-tech government agency, and as such has many appearances in popular fiction. Some realistic references to DARPA in fiction are as "ARPA" in

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working on this project, with an expected completion date of March 2022. Raytheon is also working on this project, with an expected completion date of April 2022.

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classified IT services. Strategic Analysis Inc. provided support services regarding engineering, science, mathematics, and front office and administrative work.

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AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY X-Plane (ANCILLARY) (2022): The program is to develop and demonstrate a vertical takeoff and landing (

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combined areas of the Advanced Vehicle Systems and Tactical Technology offices to develop and demonstrate submarine stealth and counter-stealth and automation.

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optical gain" to integrated photonics platforms, and enable complete photonics functionality "on a single substrate for disruptive optical microsystems."

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medical diagnostics and therapies. RadiaBeam Technologies LLC was working on a phase 1 of the program, Laser-Compton approach, in fiscal year 2020.

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In 1981, two engineers, Robert McGhee and Kenneth Waldron, started to develop the Adaptive Suspension Vehicle (ASV) nicknamed the "Walker" at the

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Kenneth J. Waldron; Vincent J. Vohnout; Arrie Pery; Robert B. McGhee (June 1, 1984). "Configuration Design of the Adaptive Suspension Vehicle".

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effort that seeks to develop and demonstrate critical technologies to enable an effective and affordable air-launched hypersonic cruise missile.

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designed and developed the RSGS robotic arm with DARPA funding. The RSGS system is anticipated to start servicing satellites in space in 2025.

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By May 2024, Manta Ray was not only the descriptor for the DARPA R&D program, but was also the name of a specific prototype UUV built by

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DARPA Manta Ray Developing New Class of UUVs Capable of Carrying Large Payloads and Long Endurance Missions to Support Persistent Operations

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Fiscal Year 1958 Supplemental Military Construction Authorization (Air Force): Hearings, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 9739

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robotic satellite-servicing project, conceived in 2017. In 2020, DARPA selected Northrop Grumman's SpaceLogistics as its RSGS partner. The

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who served until 1963. Ruina, the first scientist to administer ARPA, managed to raise its budget to $ 250 million. It was Ruina who hired

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effectiveness, survivability, and lethality of systems that relate to these applications depend critically on microsystems and components.

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Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City

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Novel, nonsurgical, bi-directional brain-computer interface with high spacio-temporal resolution and low latency for potential human use.

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Clean-Slate Design of Resilient, Adaptive, Secure Hosts (CRASH), a DARPA Transformation Convergence Technology Office (TCTO) initiative

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of 1973 expressly limited appropriations for defense research (through ARPA/DARPA) only to projects with direct military application.

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IPTO focused on inventing the sensing, networking, computing, and software technologies vital to ensuring DOD military superiority.

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Technologies of Los Angeles, California, are currently working on the SIEVE program, with a projected completion date of May 2024.

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During the 1980s, the attention of the Agency was centered on information processing and aircraft-related programs, including the

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Media Forensics (MediFor): A project aimed at automatically spotting digital manipulation in images and videos, including

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Synthetic Hemo-technologIEs to Locate and Disinfect (SHIELD) (2023): The program aims to develop prophylaxes and prevent

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As of 2021, their mission statement is "to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security".

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was created to develop advanced land vehicle and anti-armor systems, once the domain of the Tactical Technology Office.

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aims to ensure U.S. technological superiority in all areas where information can provide a decisive military advantage.

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Intelligent Integration of Information (I3) in SISTO, 1994–2000 – supported database research and with ARPA CISTO and

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In June 2018, DARPA leaders demonstrated a number of new technologies that were developed within the framework of the

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Rational Integrated Design of Energetics (RIDE): developing tools that speed up and facilitate energetics research.

490:(the first wide-area packet switching network), Packet Radio Network, Packet Satellite Network and ultimately, the 12445: 2786: 1696:: Revolutionary approaches to the design, verification, and manufacturing of complex defense systems and vehicles. 455:

Concerning information processing, DARPA made great progress, initially through its support of the development of

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RACER conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles March 12-27, 2023.

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mission is to focus on technologies that have a global theater-wide impact and that involve multiple Services.

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ARPA's second director was Brigadier General Austin W. Betts, who resigned in early 1961 and was succeeded by

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Transit to Tomorrow. Fifty Years of Space Research at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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Subcommittee On Military Construction, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services (1958).

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This allowed ARPA to concentrate its efforts on the Project Defender (defense against ballistic missiles),

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Many of the successful programs were transitioned to the Services, such as the foundation technologies in

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the early 1970s, it emphasized direct energy programs, information processing, and tactical technologies.

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The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs

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Walker, Steven; Sherk, Jeffrey; Shell, Dale; Schena, Ronald; Bergmann, John; Gladbach, Jonathan (2008).

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the first virtual travel system, in what could be considered an early precursor of Google's Street View

6329: 4876: 3689: 3533: 1059: 611: 314: 54: 8135:"The DARPA/AF Falcon Program: The Hypersonic Technology Vehicle #2 (HTV-2) Flight Demonstration Phase" 2065:: Sniper scope that automatically measures crosswind and range to ensure accuracy in field conditions. 1829:(CTS): "track everything that moves" in a city by linking up a massive network of surveillance cameras 1615:(Transformative Applications), rapid development and fielding of secure mobile apps in the battlefield 12405: 12275: 12125: 12052: 11941: 11708: 11683: 11423: 11261: 11231: 10753: 10681: 10468: 10215: 10115: 10110: 10045: 9943: 9906: 9510: 9398: 8989: 7847: 6351: 5425: 2596:

Dwight D. Eisenhower and Science & Technology, (2008). Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission,

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SafeGenes: a synthetic biology project to program "undo" sequences into gene editing programs (2016)

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Causal Exploration of Complex Operational Environments ("Causal Exploration") – computerized aid to

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Symposium with the aim of getting the public to start thinking seriously about interstellar travel.

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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

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them, and create fixes that patch those vulnerabilities in a fully automated fashion. It is one of

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government exercises all options on the contract then work will continue through 4 February 2024.

1297: 1157: 779: 519: 495: 417:, and materials sciences. The DEFENDER and AGILE programs formed the foundation of DARPA sensor, 243: 5085: 3123: 1641:: Soft exosuit to alleviate musculoskeletal stress on soldiers when carrying heavy loads. (2014) 12473: 12368: 11299: 11081: 9623: 9439: 9353: 5904: 5468: 4801:"DARPA, NASA tap Lockheed Martin to design, build DRACO nuclear rocket for deep space missions" 3645: 2097: 2059:: an unmanned oblique-wing flying aircraft for high speed, long range and long endurance flight 1681: 1560: 1235: 986: 573: 20: 7867: 7595:"ACTUV "Sea Hunter" Prototype Transitions to Office of Naval Research for Further Development" 6060:

DARPA N-ZERO program seeks to reduce or eliminate need for standby power on unattended sensors

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The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency that Changed the World

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DARPA's Squad X Core Technologies program looks to create smarter, more aware infantry squads

6296: 4973: 3047: 2256: 2240: 2050: 1866: 1826: 1703: 1693: 1438:(N-ZERO): Reducing or eliminating the standby power unattended ground sensors consume. (2015) 1164:. ...as an 'architecture demonstration intending to show the high military utility of global 1153: 648: 601: 515: 10556: 5310: 5288: 2976: 2610: 2026:: A visual intelligence system capable of detecting and analyzing activity from video feeds. 1631:: Payloads stored on the ocean floor that can be activated and retrieved when needed. (2014) 12598: 12556: 12415: 12373: 12219: 12207: 12195: 12189: 12057: 11929: 11597: 9639: 9206: 8645: 4748:"DARPA Triage Challenge to Promote Tech Use in Medical Response to Mass Casualty Incidents" 4188: 3148: 2329: 1861: 1260:: Software algorithms that enable small UAVs to fly fast in cluttered environments without 903: 546: 326: 251: 210: 8253: 4677: 2996: 8: 12580: 12378: 12035: 11880: 11703: 11668: 11370: 10710: 10391: 10316: 9070: 9055: 8959: 8623: 8563: 6501: 4902: 4652:"Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effecters (CRANE) Proposers Day (Archived)" 1855: 441: 414: 8751: 8736: 5684:"DARPA LongShot Cleared To Move Into Flight Demonstration Phase | Aviation Week Network" 4531: 4192: 1066:

Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.

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Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.

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A 1991 reorganization created several offices which existed throughout the early 1990s:

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15th AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference

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DARPA Solicitation Number SN03-13: Pre-Solicitation Notice: COMBAT ZONES THAT SEE (CTS)

7250: 6080:"Pentagon Rolls Out DARPA Plan To Implant Chips In Soldiers' Brains – The Rundown Live" 5514: 3086: 3012:"A Marriage of Convenience: The Founding of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory" 2120: 2101: 1958:(HAARP): An ionospheric research program jointly funded by DARPA, the U.S. Air Force's 1750: 1713: 1709: 1563:(BSI) caused by bacterial/fungal agents, a threat to military and civilian populations. 1398: 526:, which is generally seen as the first hypermedia system and an important precursor of 382:

From 1958 to 1965, ARPA's emphasis centered on major national issues, including space,

364: 247: 114: 50: 9239: 8008: 3733: 3254: 651:(CGC), bringing a group of top-notch computer security experts to search for security 12574: 12562: 12463: 12410: 12383: 12256: 12101: 11934: 11924: 11698: 11337: 10832: 10551: 9929: 9145: 9120: 9060: 8922: 8914: 8861: 8842: 8832: 8789: 8779: 8772: 8488: 8150: 7790: 7724: 7694: 7664: 7625: 7317: 7242: 7234: 5518: 4204: 3949: 3090: 2787:"[Internet Policy] Why the World Must Resist Calls to Undermine the Internet" 2270: 1900: 1192: 644: 622: 593:. In addition, DARPA began to pursue new concepts for small, lightweight satellites ( 511: 410: 268: 255: 235: 144: 8857:

Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986

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detection. During 1960, all of its civilian space programs were transferred to the

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has called DARPA the agency that shaped the modern world, with technologies like "

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responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.

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National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research

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Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Installations, Environment & Logistics)

9181: 9130: 9125: 8855: 8798: 8758: 8743: 8706:"Spectral review: Netflix's new movie is Gears of War meets Aliens, on the cheap" 8692: 8681: 8654: 8322: 8284: 8109:"General Atomics And Boeing's New Liquid Laser Could Win High-Energy Weapon Race" 8085: 7894: 7854: 7718: 7688: 7658: 7569: 7524: 7454: 7407: 7337: 7304: 7200: 7155: 6776: 6110:"Pentagon wants to fit soldiers with a little black box brain implant - Geek.com" 6066: 5739: 5191: 4959: 4709: 4613: 4594: 4200: 2769: 2343: 2170: 1806: 1746: 1742: 1729: 1362: 1216:(CWO) (2015): Computer rifle scope that combines various features into one optic. 1176:

broadband, electro-magnetic spectrum receiver system: prototype and demonstration

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technologies with a variety of "military-unique sensors and payloads commercial

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development programs. The agency's current director, appointed in March 2021, is

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The two relevant acts are the Supplemental Military Construction Authorization (

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Air Dominance Initiative: a 2015 program to develop technologies to be used in

1658:(4-minute mile): Wearable jetpack to enable soldiers to run at increased speed. 1441: 1384:

Manta Ray: A 2020 DARPA program to develop a series of autonomous, large-size,

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Norberg, Arthur Lawrence; O'Neill, Judy Elizabeth; Freedman, Kerry J. (1996).

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Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller)

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DARPA Announces Success of Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System (CT2WS)

7238: 7215:"Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics: Analog Learning Systems" 6720:"DARPA Project Strives for Off-Road Unmanned Vehicles that React Like Humans" 6649:

Roesler, Gordon; Jaffe, Paul; Henshaw, Glen; Pagano, Alyssa (July 29, 2017).

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DARPA to begin new effort to build military constellations in low Earth orbit

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Stefanie Chiou; Craig Music; Kara Sprague; Rebekah Wahba (December 5, 2001).

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refers to a mid-2000s concept demonstrator for autonomous military aircraft.

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and systems that enable secure 5G and subsequent mobile networks such as 6G.

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Technology research and development agency of the U.S. Department of Defense

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The Office of Special Development (OSD) in the 1960s developed a real-time

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This article is about the US military research agency. For other uses, see

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Eede, Yoni Van Den; Irwin, Stacey O'Neal; Wellner, Galit (June 23, 2017).

7125:"CHIPS Articles: WMD Threat Sensors Integrated, Tested in Police Vehicles" 6789: 5510: 3290:"DARPA/US Air Force hypersonic air-breathing weapon ready for free flight" 2946: 2294:(DARPA consults on a technical threat), in episodes of television program 1131:

Biomanufacturing: Survival, Utility, and Reliability beyond Earth (B-SURE)

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Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment

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DARPA looks to ultra-wideband technology for advanced tactical networking

3458: 3225:"Darpa to create Cyber Grand Challenge to fight security vulnerabilities" 2709: 2246: 2130: 2116: 1876: 1793: 1786: 1512: 1303: 667: 590: 476: 44: 9883:

Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisitions)

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Pentagon plans to seed ocean floor with payloads waiting to be activated

6892:"Securing Information for Encrypted Verification and Evaluation (SIEVE)" 6426: 4703:

What It Feels Like to Shoot With the Military's Experimental Smart Scope

3817:"DARPA selects teams to propose VTOL UAS designs with no infrastructure" 2460:

United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

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Office of the Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs

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fields of speech recognition and signal processing, including parts of

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Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller)

8173: 7749:"Darpa's Magic Plan: 'Battlefield Illusions' to Mess With Enemy Minds" 7413: 4002:"History made as US military conducts first ever human vs AI dogfight" 2912:"Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | United States government" 2544:"Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | United States government" 1552:

on the SemaFor program, with an expected completion date of July 2024.

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RADICS: Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems

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Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower & Reserve Affairs)

9828: 8974: 8710: 8217:"Meshworm: DARPA, MIT robot a sluggish breakthrough in soft robotics" 7812:"U.S. military's X-37B spaceplane lands in Florida – Spaceflight Now" 7350: 7170:"DARPA Is Building a $ 10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System" 7069:"DARPA develops pocket-sized, affordable, networked radiation sensor" 6011:"Raytheon tests motor for DARPA's MAD-FIRES self-defense interceptor" 4722: 4328: 4154:"Rhodium Scientific to Test the Concept of Biomanufacturing in Space" 3868:"DARPA competition will use AI to find, fix software vulnerabilities" 3591: 2767: 2567: 2289: 2155: 2124: 1749:. Developed in 1978, it is the earliest predecessor to products like 1612: 1411: 503: 464: 434: 305: 218: 6272:"Operational Fires Program Successfully Completes First Flight Test" 5973: 5780:"Ghost Shark and Manta Ray: Australia and US unveil undersea drones" 4078:"Real-time Airspace Awareness and De-confliction for Future Battles" 7937: 4678:"Meet the X-65: DARPA's New Plane Has No External Control Surfaces" 2308: 1225: 557:

advanced aircraft, and defense applications of advanced computing.

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Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World Relations

6695:"Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER)" 6651:"Robot Mechanic Could Prevent Satellites From Becoming Space Junk" 2094:

tests in low Earth orbit were projected to occur as early as 2015.

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On October 28, 2009, the agency broke ground on a new facility in

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The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was suggested by the

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Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development

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Next-gen night vision would enable troops to see farther, clearer

5754:"DARPA Selects Two Teams to Build, Test Innovative Manta Ray UUV" 4557:"Clean-slate design of Resilient, Adaptive, Secure Hosts (CRASH)" 2884:"J. C. R. Licklider." Lyon, Matthew; Hafner, Katie (1999-08-19). 2302: 2135: 2039: 1719: 1593: 1455: 1402: 1381:

air-launched, flying and potentially recoverable missile carrier.

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Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs

8564:"Darpa Wants to Rethink the Helicopter to Make It Go Way Faster" 7518:

DARPA's Warrior Web project may provide super-human enhancements

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DARPA unveils new SoSITE program for maintaining air superiority

6745:"RACER's Off-Road Autonomous Vehicles Teams Navigate Third Test" 3164:"Forget the Moon Colony, Newt: DARPA Aims for 100 Year Starship" 2466:

United States Army Research, Development and Engineering Command

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creation produced under the Revolutionizing Prosthetics program.

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Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER)

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Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment)

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DARPA's Plan to Flood the Sea With Drones, Carrying More Drones

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Pentagon issues call for drones that hunt like a pack of wolves

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Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations

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Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (

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expected completion in August and September 2021, respectively.

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Networking and Information Technology Research and Development

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Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)

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Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology

7043:"Synthetic Hemo-technologIEs to Locate and Disinfect (SHIELD)" 5231:"GXV-T Advances Radical Technology for Future Combat Vehicles" 4588:

DARPA invites industry to explore collaborative UAV technology

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Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE)

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R&D) programs, and to begin work on computer processing,

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DARPA calls on industry to develop compact, push-button wall

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or "Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes": software

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System of Systems Integration Technology and Experimentation

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Johnson and York were both keen on space projects, but when

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United States Army Medical Research and Development Command

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The very first interactive street view is 'Aspen Movie Map'

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Jetpacks Help Soldiers Run At The Speed Of Olympic Athletes

5329:"American military backs an entirely new kind of processor" 5311:"High Operational Temperature Sensors (HOTS) Proposers Day" 4929:"Boeing drops out of DARPA Experimental Spaceplane program" 2236: 2169:

I3 (Intelligent Integration of Information), supported the

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Force Application and Launch from Continental United States

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Commander, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

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Food and Drug Administration science and research programs

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Assistant Secretary (Financial Management and Comptroller)

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Klabukov, Ilya; Alekhin, Maksim; Yakovets, Andrey (2017).

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Synthetic Aperture Ladar for Tactical Applications (SALTI)

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Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO)

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Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954

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Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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