Today, DARPA ’ s mission is still to prevent technological surprise to the US, but also to create technological surprise for our enemies.

DARPA also appears in three novels by Andy McDermott, The Search for Excalibur, The Covenant of Genesis and The Empire of Gold.

It is perhaps best known for its work in the development of packet switching ( including the ARPANET and the Internet ) and for its 1978 acoustical analysis for the House Select Committee on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but it is also a military contractor, primarily for DARPA.

Many people were involved in the production, most notably: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Architecture Machine Group, who found support for the project from the Cybernetics Technology Office of DARPA ; Andrew Lippman, principal investigator ; Bob Mohl, who designed the map overlay system and ran user studies of the efficacy of the system for his PhD thesis ; Richard Leacock ( Ricky ), who headed the MIT Film / Video section and shot along with MS student Marek Zalewski the Cinéma vérité interviews placed behind the facades of key buildings ; John Borden, of Peace River Films in Cambridge, MA, who designed the stabilization rig ; Kristina Hooper of UCSC ; Rebecca Allen ; Scott Fisher, who matched the photos of Aspen in the silver-mining days from the historical society to the same scenes in Aspen in 1978 and who experiment with anamorphic imaging of the city ( using a Volpe lens ); Walter Bender, who designed and built the interface, the client / server model, and the animation system ; Steve Gregory ; Stan Sasaki, who built much of the electronics ; Steve Yelick, who worked on the laserdisc interface and anamorphic rendering ; Eric " Smokehouse " Brown, who built the metadata encoder / decoder ; Paul Heckbert worked on the animation system ; Mark Shirley and Paul Trevithick, who also worked on the animation ; Ken Carson ; Howard Eglowstein ; and Michael Naimark, who was at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and was responsible for the cinematography design and production.

It did, however, also negatively influence DARPA funding on other BSD-related projects, such as FreeBSD.

The CIA in addition to working with subcontractors like Lockheed also worked with other branches of the government, namely DARPA ( Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ) of the DoD ( Department of Defense ) and ONI ( Office of Naval Intelligence ) though it is unclear what role if any Gottlieb played in these affairs other than authorizing them.

Ballston is also home to several U. S. government agencies and organizations including the National Science Foundation, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, DARPA ( the funding agency for the original Internet research ), and the Office of Naval Research, as well as non-profit groups, such as The Nature Conservancy.

A big boost in research support also came from the military, especially from DARPA ( Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ), for their interest in portable bio / chemical warfare agent detection systems.

The shuttle also carried a Spacehab Logistics Module to resupply the ISS, and an Integrated Cargo Carrier with four sub-satellites, which were deployed after undocking from the ISS: the ANDE technology demonstrator, developed by the Naval Research Laboratory, and three CubeSats ( RAFT-1 and MARScom for the United States Naval Academy, and MEPSI 2A / 2B for DARPA ).

* The 2009 DARPA Network Challenge ( also known as the Red Balloon Challenge ), involving spotting 10 red balloons in the Continental United States.

Don also teams up with Larry to tell Jane Karellen that Charlie was not taking DARPA up on their offer.

His work has also been supported by DARPA, Apple Computer, the Navy, and other U. S. government agencies.

It is very unusual for research on a compound to be released in scientific journals without disclosing exactly what the compound consists of, but this information is likely to have been kept confidential for reasons of intellectual property, and also because the research on CX-717 was initially partially funded by DARPA, the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

DARPA had not only been one of JASON's primary sponsors, it was also the channel through which JASON received funding from other sponsors.

He also helped found Airlaunch LLC which was awarded the DARPA / USAF FALCON project in 2003.

Engelbart's research was funded by DARPA, and SRI's ARC became involved with the ARPANET, the precursor of the Internet.

TIDES is an ambitious technology development effort, funded by DARPA.

The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program ( HAARP ) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U. S. Air Force, the U. S. Navy, the University of Alaska, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ).

Other recent research highlights include studies of the effects of sleep and sleep loss on human cognitive functioning, work to advance shock compression science with contracts awarded to the WSU Institute for Shock Physics by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) and the Department of Energy, and a program funded by the National Science Foundation that trains doctoral students to analyze evolutionary processes.

This group was jointly funded by the DARPA ( under the DAML program ) and the European Union's Information Society Technologies ( IST ) funding project.

Almost immediately afterwards ( within less than a day ) the Pentagon announced the cancellation of PAM, and by the end of the week John Poindexter, head of the DARPA unit responsible for developing it, had offered his resignation ; the PAM had first been proposed & funded in 2001, and Poindexter joined DARPA in December 2002.

The DARPA Grand Challenge is a prize competition for driverless vehicles, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the most prominent research organization of the United States Department of Defense.

From 1998 to 2008 he was Senior NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) Provided technical leadership to the Intelligent Systems Division and served as Principal Investigator for the implementation of intelligent ground vehicle projects funded by the Army and DARPA.

In addition, specific projects and researchers are funded more traditionally through government institutions including the NIH, NSF, and DARPA.

The Traveller TCS wins brought Lenat to the attention of DARPA, which has funded much of his subsequent work.

However, Ekman's TSA work was funded by DARPA.

The BLEEX was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ), and developed by the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory, a unit within the University of California, Berkeley Department of Mechanical Engineering.

The smartdust concept was introduced, developed, and funded by DARPA due to the potential military applications of the technology.

PMaC is funded by the Department of Energy ( SciDac PERC research grant ), the Department of Defense ( Navy DSRC PET program ), DARPA, and the National Science Foundation.

In 1959, ARPA ( now known as DARPA ) funded a research project called Project Agile to develop a new tactical truck for the Southeast Asia theatre, as well as other projects of interest to the then-looming Vietnam War.

When he was building up the University of Utah department in 1968 he managed to convince Ivan Sutherland ( who had funded Evans ' DARPA research ) to come to Utah, accepting the condition that they start a computer graphics company together.

DARPA has funded efforts to harness energy from leg and arm motion, shoe impacts, and blood pressure for low level power to implantable or wearable sensors.

The NSF / DARPA funded Workshop on Development and Learning was held April 5 – 7, 2000 at Michigan State University.

The formation of Information Sciences Institute ( ISI ), funded by DARPA, is described.

It was during this time that DARPA funded nationwide computer networks, one of them eventually under the internet protocol.

However, a 2006 study funded by DARPA found that CX717 did not improve cognitive performance in humans subjected to simulated night shift work.

In FY 2011, sponsored research programs, including those funded by the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ), DARPA, and private foundations, totaled over $ 60 million.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies 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.

Concerning information processing, DARPA made great progress, initially through its support of the development of time-sharing ( all modern operating systems rely on concepts invented for the Multics system, developed by a cooperation among Bell Labs, General Electric and MIT, which DARPA supported by funding Project MAC at MIT with an initial two-million-dollar grant ).

The Internet protocol suite resulted from research and development conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) in the early 1970s.

Recent developments in KR include the concept of the Semantic Web, and development of XML-based knowledge representation languages and standards, including Resource Description Framework ( RDF ), RDF Schema, Topic Maps, DARPA Agent Markup Language ( DAML ), Ontology Inference Layer ( OIL ), and Web Ontology Language ( OWL ).

Development of the Semantic Web, has included development of XML-based knowledge representation languages and standards, including RDF, RDF Schema, Topic Maps, DARPA Agent Markup Language ( DAML ), Ontology Inference Layer ( OIL ), and Web Ontology Language ( OWL ).

Principal funding for the development of the robo-rat has come from DARPA.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) started the research and development of automated visual surveillance and monitoring ( VSAM ) program, between 1997 and 1999, and airborne video surveillance ( AVS ) programs, from 1998 to 2002.

Some students compete in design projects for organizations such as the Society of Automotive Engineers ' Mini-Baja competition and the Olin Automatons, a group interested in autonomous vehicle technology ( originally pursuing the development of an autonomous vehicle for the DARPA Grand Challenge ).

In 2000 in the United States, DARPA started development of DAML led by James Hendler.

The Policy Analysis Market ( PAM ), part of the FutureMAP project, was a proposed futures exchange developed by the United States ' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) and based on an idea first proposed by Net Exchange, a San Diego research firm specializing in the development of online prediction markets.

The U. S. Congress authorized DARPA to offer prize money ($ 1 million ) for the first Grand Challenge to facilitate robotic development, with the ultimate goal of making one-third of ground military forces autonomous by 2015.

Interlisp became a popular Lisp development tool for AI researchers at Stanford University and elsewhere in the DARPA community.

In conjunction with partners, the company had won a major contract from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) for the development of a next-generation rotorcraft, indicating possible longer-term product development potential.

In 1998 the company received a DARPA research contract which led to the development of the PackBot.

Evolutionary Rapid Development ( ERD ) was developed by the Software Productivity Consortium, a technology development and integration agent for the Information Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ).

It is unusual for DARPA to be involved with advanced development programs ; the agency normally performs proof-of-concept demonstrations and then hands follow-on programs on to interested military services.

Apparently this arrangement was driven from the office of the secretary of defense, the idea being that DARPA would be able to keep the development effort on track until advanced demonstrators were available, and then the program would have so much momentum that it would keep on going.

" Such examples of modern military wargames include DARWARS, a serious game developed since 2003 by the US DARPA agency with BBN Technologies, a defense contractor which was involved in the development of packet switching, used for ARPANET, and which developed the first computer modem in 1963.

The U. S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, initiated the WALRUS program in 2005, a technology development initiative focused on ultra heavy air lift technology explorations.