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 AllRefer.com - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (U.S. Government) - Encyclopedia
It was established in 1958, as a reaction to the successful launch of Sputnik by the USSR, as the Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S. government agency administered by the Department of Defense (see Defense, United States Department of).
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reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DefenseA.html   (227 words)

  
 Chronology - 1958 - Quarter 4
NASA was activated in accordance with the terms of Public Law 85-568, and the nonmilitary space projects which had been conducted by the Advanced Research Projects Agency were transferred to the jurisdiction of the NASA.
Studies and plans of the manned satellite project were presented to Advanced Research Projects Agency on October 3 and to Dr. T.
The next phase was the research and development drops offshore of Wallops Island, Virginia, and the objectives here were as follows: to study the stability of the spacecraft during free fall and with parachute support; to study the shock input to the spacecraft by parachute deployment; and to study and develop retrieving operations.
www.astronautix.com /chrono/19584.htm   (4535 words)

  
 Centibots Project Home Page
The Centibots project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is aimed at developing new technology to support the coordinated deployment of as many as 100 robots for missions such as urban surveillance.
The development is structured to exploit existing research solutions that are fairly robust (self-localization, path planning) and then identifying and exploring areas where research is still needed but where solutions are being developed and refined (map construction, multirobot concurrent mapping) as well as areas where significant research is needed (human and robot interaction, team formation).
The goal of the project is to demonstrate by December 2004, 100 robots mapping, tracking, guarding in a coherent fashion during a period of 24 hours.
www.ai.sri.com /centibots   (305 words)

  
 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at opensource encyclopedia
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, also known as DARPA or ARPA is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military.
DARPA was created as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), by Public Law 85-325 and Department of Defense Directive 5105.41, in February 1958.
These large-scale technological program demonstrations were joined by integrated circuit research, which resulted in submicron electronic technology and electron devices that evolved into the Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Program and the Congressionally-mandated charged particle beam program.
springknow.com /Defense_Advanced_Research_Projects_Agency.html   (1274 words)

  
 Air Force Office of Scientific Research
In addition, AFOSR-managed research programs funded and awarded by the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO).
Research contributing to the understanding of flow instabilities and the mechanisms of transition from laminar to turbulent flow in both bounded and free-shear flows is of interest, especially as it relates to the impact on flow controllability.
Research that addresses fundamental flow phenomena occurring in gas turbine engines, emphasizing the roles of unsteadiness, high freestream turbulence and three-dimensionality in determining the performance, stability, and heat-transfer characteristics of these flows, is encouraged.
www.afosr.af.mil /pages/baa2002.htm   (12476 words)

  
 History of ARPANET - Part I: The history of ARPA leading up to the ARPANET
ARPA was assigned to research how to utilize their investment in computers via Command and Control Research (CCR).
It was noted that the computer research centers supported or partially supported by IPT provided a unique testbed for computer networking experiments, as well as providing immediate benefits to the centers and valuable research results to the military.
(ARPA draft, III-25) Results from the previous year's research was summarized and future research was discussed, either introduced by ARPA or the various researchers present at the meetings.
www.dei.isep.ipp.pt /docs/arpa--1.html   (2330 words)

  
 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
The controversial Mansfield Amendment of 1973 expressly limited appropriations for defense research (through ARPA/DARPA) to projects with direct military application.
The Tactical Technology Office engages in high-risk, high-payoff advanced military research, emphasizing the "system" and "subsystem" approach to the development of aeronautic, space, and land systems as well as embedded processors and control systems.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Defense_Advanced_Research_Projects_Agency   (1622 words)

  
 Digital Systems Research Center: Report 61
But through his work for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), he was also able to give his vision reality.
The projects sponsored by his program provided the research direction for computer science in this country for many subsequent years.
Furthermore, his program was the first to provide the significant public funding necessary to guarantee the financial stability on which long-term research depended.
gatekeeper.dec.com /pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-061.html   (312 words)

  
 The Business of War
The defense agency is currently trying to identify potential suspects by their unseen traits using plumes of odorant molecules, spending more than $427,000 on four grants to the University of Arizona for this purpose, dating back to 1998.
Since late 2000, researchers at Georgia Tech have been working on a new computer-based identification system called Human ID that theoretically can take video images from a camera and distinguish people by the way that they walk and their different mannerisms.
She also says that DARPA doesn't require private contractors to share their research solely with DARPA.
multinationalmonitor.org /mm2003/03jan-feb/jan-feb03corp3.html   (2037 words)

  
 House Committee on Science
Anthony Tether, the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), who also testified, said DARPA was "idea-limited" in the cybersecurity area, rather than short on funds.
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 2003- The heads of three of the leading federal agencies conducting cybersecurity research and development (RandD) acknowledged at a Science Committee hearing today that their agencies are not committing enough resources to cybersecurity research and development.
The 'Cybersecurity Research and Development Act' and the 'Homeland Security Act' both established new programs and authorized new funds for cybersecurity RandD.
www.house.gov /science/press/108/108-063.htm   (344 words)

  
 EPA: ORD: National Center For Environmental Research
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) program, is seeking applications proposing approaches directed at avoiding or minimizing the generation of pollutants at the source.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing research in three areas of interest concerning the valuation of policy-relevant changes in environmentally-related human health risk.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) program, is offering Undergraduate Fellowships for bachelor level students in environmentally related fields of study.
es.epa.gov /ncerqa   (1516 words)

  
 02-03-12mulligan.html
Drawing on scientific talent and research expertise from the University of Arizona, and the growing technology base of Tucson, Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc. was founded in 1989 to meet the increasing need for more economical high temperature, wear resistant components for aerospace and defense applications.
Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc. (ACR) is a small successful high-tech company founded as a spin-off of the University of Arizona in 1989.
Under currently funded DoD SBIR research contracts ACM is already working on the development of new materials for deep ground penetrators and development of a new class of ceramic capacitors for electronics to enhance national missile defense.
www.house.gov /hasc/openingstatementsandpressreleases/107thcongress/02-03-12mulligan.html   (4183 words)

  
 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Adaptive Hierarchical Network Modeling and Simulation
This project is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
A key objective of this research program is the development of self-organized algorithms and systems that automatically select the appropriate models and scale for the function requesting their use.
The principal objective of the research is the development of robust multi-models of network traffic of minimum complexity for network control and planning.
www.isr.umd.edu /CSHCN/research/darpa/darpa-modeling/index.html   (1405 words)

  
 Center for Computational Science
There are numerous cooperative research endeavors within the DoD and with academia and industry that span a broad spectrum of activity ranging from basic research to exploratory development as well as continuing efforts to field technology through a succession of advanced technology demonstrations.
Research interests are concentrated in providing early access to scalable massively parallel computing systems, high performance networking technologies, and scalable software compilers and tools to support applications development.
The Center's research into massively parallel processing (MPP) involves in-house software development, but also includes architecture and configuration development for high performance computation, graphics in support of application virtualization, and high speed file storage systems for rapid archiving and retrieval of all digitally stored data.
www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil   (482 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Face expert's ability to see deception has him in demand
The Defense Department's research and development arm, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, also has worked with Ekman, spokeswoman Jan Walker says in an e-mail.
The retired psychologist, 71, is known around the world for his research on facial expressions and for his ability to carefully monitor expressions, body language, gestures and voice.
His research into deception began with trying to discover who might be lying about attempting suicide.
www.usatoday.com /news/health/2005-07-20-face-expert_x.htm   (782 words)

  
 Defense Sciences and Research Technology
The mission of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is to identify and pursue the most promising technologies within a broad spectrum of the science and engineering research communities and to develop those technologies into important, radically new military capabilities.
To this end, DSO is soliciting proposals for advanced research and development in a variety of enabling technical areas as described below.
In addition, DSO is looking for research ideas and areas that might lead to innovations in science and engineering.
www.fedgrants.gov /Applicants/DOD/DARPA/CMO/BAA05-19/Grant.html   (1665 words)

  
 Mini Helicopter Thinks For Itself — On The Fly — To React To Dangerous Situations
Researchers from several partner institutions and organizations have helped to successfully build, test and fly the first rotary wing UAV, a helicopter called GTMax, with capabilities of flight control fault identification and reconfiguration, adaptive control and agile maneuvering — all operating on a single vehicle and under a single software architecture.
UC Berkeley Researchers Field Testing Low-altitude Robo-copters (December 24, 2004) -- When scale model helicopters pass through a makeshift "urban canyon" in a test field, or engage in a game of aerial "chicken", the drills may look like a robotic stunt show to outside...
The Georgia Tech team was selected by DARPA to be the systems integrator for the entire rotary wing UAV project, integrating engineering advances from a distinguished group of other corporate and university researchers.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/02/050213131550.htm   (901 words)

  
 EPIC Terrorism (Total) Information Awareness Page
Projects such as the Novel Intelligence from Massive Data within the Intelligence Community Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) will apparently move forward.
DARPA's Broad Agency Announcement 02-08 soliciting proposals from industry stated that the initial plan was for a five year research project into these various technologies.
This was followed by a second directive issued by Poindexter that extended military authority over all computer and communications security for the federal government and private industry.
www.epic.org /privacy/profiling/tia   (3515 words)

  
 LifeLog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LifeLog is a project of the Information Processing Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
According to its bid solicitation pamphlet, is to be "an ontology-based (sub)system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person's experience in and interactions with the world in order to support a broad spectrum of associates/assistants and other system capabilities.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/LifeLog   (146 words)

  
 HSARPA Index
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) joined the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, in December 2003, our goal is to increase the participation of innovative and creative small businesses in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) programs and challenge industry to bring innovative homeland security solutions to reality.
This is a United States Department of Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency computer system, hosted by Strategic Analysis Inc., which may be accessed and used only for official Government business by authorized personnel.
Invited Phase II projects will be reviewed and awards will be made incrementally, as quickly as possible, to maintain the momentum of the Phase I effort.
www.hsarpasbir.com   (1018 words)

  
 DARPA To Support Development Of Human Brain-Machine Interfaces
It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions.
Nicolelis, Henriquez and their colleagues are among researchers developing a theory that neurons are not hard-wired circuit elements permanently assigned to one computing task, like the microprocessor inside a computer.
DARPA (www.darpa.mil) is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2002/08/020820071329.htm   (1812 words)

  
 DoD Director of Research - Research History
The Department of Defense (DoD) proposes to issue a DoD Instruction on the use of cost sharing in basic, applied, and advanced research projects carried out through grants and other assistance instruments.
Basic research is focused primarily on long-term goals leading to new or improved technologies, hence must be conducted with a full understanding of needed technology improvements, on the one hand, and of promising research opportunities, on the other.
Sometimes efforts initiated in the research laboratory produce results that can be transferred rapidly to either military or civilian applications, hence program managers and researchers are encouraged to make every effort to be aware of such applications; moreover, such awareness stimulates invention and innovation and helps open up fresh research areas.
www.acq.osd.mil /ddre/research   (633 words)

  
 ARPA - Advanced Research Projects Agency
Advanced Research Projects Agency An agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), founded in 1957 by President Eisenhower and controlled by the U.S. Department of Defense, was part of the U.S. reaction to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik.
Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense.
www.auditmypc.com /acronym/ARPA.asp   (514 words)

  
 Internet Teaching: I. Some Basic Concepts
After the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957, the US established the Advanced Research Projects Agency to investigate ways of increasing the military's use of digital communications.
Although this was a Defence department agency it soon saw the need to bring in the major US research Universities.
In 1969, a four node network (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah) was established running under a 50kbps circuit.
info.ox.ac.uk /jtap/reports/teaching/basic.html   (1376 words)

  
 Moore's Law, Kurzweil And Telecosm Stocks - Forbes.com
And after many projects at Caltech attempting to use neuromorphic models as the basis of electronic simulations of brain functions, Carver Mead observed that we still have no idea of the workings of the brain and nervous systems of a common housefly.
Humans, he predicts, will use the machines massively to extend our lifespans and to project the reach of our learning by mastering the mysteries of consciousness within our own brains and out into space, with an imperial march of human intelligence incarnate in our machines and in our newly bionic bodies.
But as some attendees groused, it would be nice if by the time of the “singularity,” or even before, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) could get Windows to boot in less than four seconds and could avoid the darkened event horizons of its chronic blue screens.
www.forbes.com /investmentnewsletters/2005/11/03/telecosm-gilder-in_gg_1102soapbox_inl.html   (1011 words)

  
 D-Lib, Digital Library Research
Many of the research centers maintain lists of projects and project descriptions as well as small collections of technical papers, typically authored by staff.
A consortium of 26 of the nation's largest research libraries and archives that have agreed to cooperate on defining what must be done to assemble digitized materials for broad public access and to United States heritage and cultures.
Programs and projects outside the U.S.A. Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (CIDL): An alliance of Canadian libraries interested in improving communication and coordination in the development of Canadian digital library resources.
www.dlib.org /projects.html   (1245 words)

  
 Arcadia at UCI
The Air Force Materiel Command, Rome Laboratory, and the Advanced Research Projects Agency under Contract Number F30602-94-C-0218.
IRUS, the Irvine Research Unit in Software, is an alliance of applied research and technology partnerships between academia and industry focused on advancing the state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice in software production.
In all cases, the results and publication of our research does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the sponsors, and no official endorsement should be inferred.
www.ics.uci.edu /Arcadia/atUCI.html   (214 words)

  
 San Diego Supercomputer Center: Delivering Cyberinfrastructure
Funded by the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Science Foundation, PMaC brings scientific rigor to the prediction and understanding of the performance of high-end computers....
GEON prepares and trains geoscience researchers, educators, and practitioners in the use of cyberinfrastructure to further their research, education, and professional goals...
10.12.05 - The HASS Grid will provide a home for digitized artifacts including 3-D, audio, video and text collections vital to research in the HASS communities...
www.sdsc.edu   (672 words)

  
 Poindexter: Overview of the Information Awareness Office
The Information Awareness Office has a number of ongoing projects to address the functional requirements of this vision, and we will be starting new projects to complete the picture.
These projects address our needs in natural language processing, to provide discovery tools for finding information in foreign languages and converting speech to text.
While the original Genoa project was aimed primarily at supporting intelligence analysis, under Genoa II we plan to focus on supporting policy and decision-making at strategic levels.
www.fas.org /irp/agency/dod/poindexter.html   (1876 words)

  
 DARPA News Releases
Press release: Air Force awards contract for DARPA-sponsored research of advanced space-based radar technologies, 4/28/04.
News article: Research project launches technical assault on hidden, moving targets, 10/8/99.
Press release: The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate awards contract to the Secure Decisions division of Applied Visions Inc. of Northport, Long Island.
www.darpa.mil /body/news.html   (2256 words)

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