DARPA has around 240 personnel ( about 140 technical ) directly managing a $ 3. 2 billion budget.

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.

* Outstanding program managers: The best DARPA program managers have always been freewheeling zealots in pursuit of their goals.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne have been commissioned by DARPA to develop a diesel Wankel engine for use in a prototype VTOL flying car called the " Transformer ".

Illinois had been designed and building large computers for the U. S. Department of Defense and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) since 1949.

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.

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.

* Asset Management by Material Prognosis-a concept similar to terotechnology which has been introduced by the US Military ( DARPA ) for upkeep of equipment in good health and start-ready condition for 24 hours.

Research is ongoing into military use of BCIs and since the 1970s DARPA has been funding research on this topic.

DARPA and Boeing had been working on the " X-45B ", a scaled-up X-45A that was seen as the prototype for an operational machine that would reach service in 2008, and would carry a 1, 590 kilogram ( 3, 500 pound ) warload to a combat radius of 1, 665 kilometers ( 900 nautical miles ).

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

Ampakines have been investigated by DARPA for potential use in increasing military effectiveness.

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.

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.

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.

The program manager responsible for the DARPA grant was J. C. R.

As responsible for the defense industry he leads the creation of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry ( Российский Фонд перспективных исследовательских проектов в оборонной промышленности ; Russian DARPA ).

* The Dynamic Analysis and Replanning Tool ( DART ), which is said to alone have paid back during the years from 1991 to 1995 for all thirty years of DARPA investments in AI research.

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.

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

DARPA achievements for the past 50 years

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

Some contend that the amendment devastated American science, since ARPA / DARPA was a major funding source for basic science projects of the time ; the National Science Foundation never made up the difference as expected.

In addition, DARPA began to pursue new concepts for small, lightweight satellites ( LIGHTSAT ) and directed new programs regarding defense manufacturing, submarine technology, and armor / anti-armor.

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

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.

* DARPA XG-technology for Dynamic Spectrum Access for assured military communications

* DARPA Silent Talk-A planned program attempting to identify EEG patterns for words and transmit these for covert communications.

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

developed in the early 1990s part of the DARPA knowledge Sharing Effort, which was aimed at developing techniques for building large-scale knowledge bases which are

In 1985, the U. S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) and AeroVironment used Quetzalcoatlus northropi as the basis for an experimental ornithopter UAV.

In the early days, Cerf was a program manager for the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) funding various groups to develop TCP / IP technology.

It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science ( MIT / LCS ) with support from the European Commission and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ), which had pioneered the Internet and its predecessor ARPANET.