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.

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

* Small and flexible: DARPA has only about 140 technical professionals ; DARPA presents itself as “ 100 geniuses connected by a travel agent .”

* 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 processes.

* Orientation to revolutionary breakthroughs in a connected approach: DARPA historically has focused not on incremental but radical innovation.

DARPA has six program offices, all of which report to the DARPA director.

ARPA / DARPA is well known as a high-tech government agency, and as such has many appearances in popular fiction.

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 ).

Speech understanding programs sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) in the U. S. has focused on this problem of natural speech interface.

WordNet has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, DARPA, the Disruptive Technology Office ( formerly the Advanced Research and Development Activity ), and REFLEX.

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

Proposed by the US Navy in 1996, it has since had funding problems, with the United States Congress cancelling some funding, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) providing some funding to individual contractors for prototypes.

RIT has collaborated with many industry players in the field of research as well, including IBM, Xerox, Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle, Siemens, NASA, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ).

DARPA has hosted competitions in 2004 & 2005 to involve private companies and universities to develop unmanned ground vehicles to navigate through rough terrain in the Mojave Desert for a final prize of $ 2 Million.

The United States Army has scrapped the TRANSTAC Program and is developing in conjunction with DARPA, the BOLT ( Broad Operational Language Translation ) in its place.

Congress has authorized DARPA to award cash prizes to further DARPA's mission to sponsor revolutionary, high-payoff research that bridges the gap between fundamental discoveries and military use.

DARPA has technologies needed to create the first fully autonomous ground vehicles capable of completing a substantial off-road course within a limited time.

Albus co-invented the Real-Time Control System ( RCS ), a reference model architecture that has been used over the past 25 years for a number of intelligent systems including the NBS Automated Manufacturing Research Facility ( AMRF ), the NASA telerobotic servicer, a DARPA Multiple Autonomous Undersea Vehicle project, a nuclear Submarine Operational Automation System, a Post Office General Mail facility, a Bureau of Mines automated mining system, a commercial open architecture machine tool controller, and numerous advanced robotic projects, including the Army Research Lab Demo III Experimental Unmanned Ground vehicle.

Since 2008, Namesys employees have received 100 % of their sponsored funding from DARPA which is why Shishkin said ' commercial funding has stopped '.

Although there are currently no true MAVs ( i. e., truly micro scaled flyers ) in existence, DARPA has attempted a program to develop even smaller Nano Air Vehicles ( NAVs ) with a wingspan of 7. 5 centimeters.

One such device, which has been designed from its inception as a fully autonomous MAV, is the Entomopter originally developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology under a DARPA contract by Robert C. Michelson.

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

* Project-based assignments organized around a challenge model: DARPA organizes a significant part of its portfolio around specific technology challenges.

* Outsourced support personnel: DARPA extensively leverages technical, contracting, and administrative services from other DoD agencies and branches of the military.

Crocker discusses computer networks, artificial intelligence research, and his work at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ); interactions with other DARPA personnel including Cordell Green, Barry Wessler, Larry Roberts, Bob Kahn, and David Russell.

In fall 2011, DARPA hosted the 100 Year Starship Symposium with the aim of getting the public to start thinking seriously about interstellar travel.

He is featured in a documentary about a robotic car entered into the historic 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and was featured in a Discovery Science special called " RoboCars " for his robotic car entered into the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

* 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.

* Hiring continuity and change: DARPA ’ s technical staff is hired or assigned for four to six years.

* Acceptance of failure: DARPA pursues breakthrough opportunities and is very tolerant of technical failure if the payoff from success will be great enough.

* 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.

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 ).

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.

DARPA is independent from other more conventional military R & D and reports directly to senior Department of Defense management.

DARPA ’ s Shredder Challenge calls upon computer scientists, puzzle enthusiasts and anyone else who likes solving complex problems to compete for up to $ 50, 000 by piecing together a series of shredded documents.

It became profitable in 1989 thanks to its DARPA contracts, and in 1990 the company had $ 65 million ( USD ) in revenue, making it the market leader in parallel supercomputers.

Following the 2004 event, Dr. Tony Tether, the director of DARPA, announced that the prize money had been increased to $ 2 million for the next event, which was claimed on October 9, 2005.

In 1989, he was awarded the first Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) contractfor US $ 1 millionfor proposing that the United States high-definition television ( HDTV ) standard should use digital processing and projection.

On July 1, 1963, Project MAC ( the Project on Mathematics and Computation, later backronymed to Multiple Access Computer, Machine Aided Cognitions, or Man and Computer ) was launched with a $ 2 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ).

DARPA provided the initial $ 50 million of start-up funds in 2001.

IBM won a $ 244 million DARPA contract in November 2006 to develop a petascale supercomputer architecture before the end of 2010 in the HPCS project.

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