Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

An agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for developing new military technologies. It is perhaps best known for its development of Arpanet, which is the direct precursor of the modern Internet. It was established in 1958 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.

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The federal government's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, spearheaded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has been called "the mother of all data-mining projects" by some.

Data-mining initiatives. (Up front: news, trends & analysis)

TIA is a project of the Information Awareness Office (IAO) in the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Watching your every move: comprehensive government database and new invasive technologies threaten our system of checks and balances, presenting an unprecedented potential for tyranny. (Cover Story: On the Home Front)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research are developing a scramjet missile engine to cruise up to Mach 6.

Scramjet engine begins testing. (Airscoop)

James Tour and Mark Reed, for example, completed much of their research into molecular computing with support from DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Downsizing

The NGI project, which is led by the US Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is worth over US$10m over the next three years, and it is meant to provide a research and development platform for high bandwidth applications and emerging technologies.

-GST TELECOMMS TO PROVIDE BACKBONE FOR US INTERNET SUPERNET PROGRAMME

Many Silicon Valley venture capitalists-no friends of big government--believe that the defunct DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) was one of the most effective government technology programs.

Technology traps: defunding the megaprograms

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract potentially valued at $13.4M.

Aerojet Rocketdyne awarded DARPA contract to design OpFires propulsion system

Lowell, who heads a program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., that has funded the IBM work.

Light pedaling: photonic brakes are vital for circuits

This work is supported in part by the Advanced Lithography Program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the NIST Office of Microelectronics Programs.

NIST develops high-resolution technique for characterization of nanoscale patterns with Small Angle X-Ray Scattering

FRVT 2002, administered in July and August of 2002, was co-sponsored by the Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NAVSEA).

Government study demonstrates leading performance for facial technology

The TIA program has been developing silently at the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under the direction of Rear Admiral John Poindexter.