DARPA
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Jesse Ventura searches for coverups...coffee and doughnuts. If that's all it is, an unclassified research project, then why wouldn't I be allowed in? It gets its funding from DARPA [the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency], the most secret part of the Pentagon. That doesn't... In this article: Jesse Ventura, Trutv, Mexico, Minnesota, Patriot Act, Msnbc, Pentagon, Darpa, and Alaska |
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Medical News Today | 1 day ago
Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics Selected To Develop New Technology For Treating Battlefield Injuries
...the treatment of the limbs of soldiers who sustain battlefield injuries. Last year, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the central research and development agency for the U.S. Department of Defense, accepted proposals...
In this article: Smith & Nephew, Osteoporosis, United States Department of Defense, Orthopaedics, Medical advice, Physical therapy, Surgery, Amputation, and Hip fracture
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Wired: Danger Room | 2 days ago
New Bomb-Resistant Trucks Will Blast RPGs Before They Hit
...all long way towards neutralizing one of the deadliest threats American troops face overseas. The contract calls for the Iron Curtain with Darpa's sniper-detection system, CROSSHAIRS. It detects and locates enemy shooters using radar and...
In this article: Rocket Propelled Grenades, Kevlar, and U.S.
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Wired Top Stories | 6 days ago
Darpa's Simulated Cat-Brain Project a Scam, Says Top Scientist
...a billion neurons connected by 10 trillion individual synapses. It was, apparently, the first baby step toward Pentagon mad science division Darpa's goal of re-creating a brain that's as compact, as efficient and as power-smart as the one...
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The Register | November 19, 2009
'Hybridisation' tech to quintuple battery life
...don't live up to their full potential in actual service use. In fact, according to the renowned Pentagon brainiac-breeding bureau DARPA, it's common for war-ware to achieve endurance of "as little as 20% of theoretical capability. This...
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Wired: Danger Room | November 17, 2009
Darpa's 'Liquid Laser' Gunship Program Pushes Ahead
...weapon "compact enough to be carried on board a tactical aircraft - say a B-1B bomber or an AC-130 gunship," Aviation Week reports. Darpa is getting ready to hand out 24-month research contracts to defense contractors Textron or General...
In this article: Textron, General Atomics, Photon, Waste heat, Crystal, B-1B bomber, Ac-130 Gunship, Wired.com, and The U.S. Air Force
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Wired: Politics | November 12, 2009
Darpa: Freeze Soldiers to Save Injured Brains
The Pentagon's mad-science division has a new way to deal with the 70,000+ troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injury: Freeze 'em. Darpa, the military's far-out research arm, is looking for research projects that would create a...
In this article: Wired.com, Cardiac arrest, Traumatic brain injury, and The Pentagon
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Popular Science | November 12, 2009
When the DoD's Fantasy Projects Get Real: DARPA Monitors Student Minds, SOCOM Wants Robo-Go-Fast Boats, And More
...mutants to fight it out in the Thunderdome, but nothing saves time in a nuke-scarred future like easy-to-understand forms. Division: DARPA Device: Enabling Effective Intelligent Tutoring Systems by Sensing Affect The geniuses at DARPA...
In this article: DoD, Sarin, Nerve agent, DTRA, Get Real, United States, Small business, and Oxygen
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New Scientist - Latest Headlines | November 11, 2009
DARPA: Inventing this side of the impossible
...about efforts to build scramjets able to race around the world in just a few hours. Remarkably, DARPA doesn't own any of these labs. Its minimally bureaucratic three-level chain of command has gone essentially unchanged over the years.
In this article: Tony Tether, New Scientist, US, Sputnik, Dog, Hafnium, and Soviet Union
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The Register | November 11, 2009
DARPA in bid for shark-portable laser rayguns
Flimsy strato-robot cover story widely discounted Posted in Science, 11th November 2009 10:23 GMT DARPA, the Pentagon tech bureau which has conferred upon a suffering human race such boons as the internet, the stealth bomber and the...
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The Register | October 30, 2009
DARPA issues balloon-hunting $40k 'Network Challenge'
Distributed natter-mob spy legions at the ready Posted in Physics, 30th October 2009 11:29 GMT Famed US military bonkers-boffinry bureau DARPA, in order to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the internet, has issued a zeitgeisty "Network...
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Description from Wikipedia:
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 impact 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 DARPA (for Defense) in March 1972, then back to ARPA in February 1993, and then back to DARPA again in March 1996.
DARPA was established in 1958 (as ARPA) in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik in 1957, with the mission of keeping U.S. military technology ahead of the nation's 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 our 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.
- Name:
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Also Known As:
- DARPA
- Headquarters:
- Arlington, Virginia
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1958
- Head:
- Regina Dugan
- No. of Employees:
- 240
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