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	Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		DARPA was responsible for funding development of many technologies which have had a major impact on the world, including computer networking (starting with the ARPANET, which eventually grew into the Internet), as well as NLS, which was both the first hypertext system, and an important precursor to the contemporary ubiquitous graphical user interface.
		DARPA was established in 1958 in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik, with the mission of keeping the US's military technology ahead of its enemies.
		DARPA received media attention in 2002 and 2003 after its creation of projects like the Information Awareness Office and Combat Zones That See (CTS), which civil liberties activists on both the left wing and right wing claim are unacceptably Orwellian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DARPA (1446 words)

	Cost Overruns Threaten DARPA Satellite Refueling Experiment
		DARPA recently added a third microsatellite to the equation that would monitor the experiment and provide "space situational awareness for U.S. satellites deployed in geostationary orbits," according to budget justification materials recently submitted to Congress.
		DARPA asked the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) about a year ago whether they believed that the ability to service satellites was likely to figure into their plans for the foreseeable future, a government source said.
		DARPA is asking for $39.8 million for that launch vehicle effort, which was initially budgeted at a total of $88 million.
	www.space.com /spacenews/archive04/darpaarch_032204.html (998 words)

	Alex Jones Presents Infowars.com to Fight the New World Order -- DARPA: ENGINEERING THE BEAST SYSTEM
		DARPA, the shadowy government agency attempted the public launch of what can only be described as a running-man style betting parlor where private individuals and companies profit by correctly predicting where terrorism will occur.
		DARPA is the same agency that announced the Total Information Awareness Network (TIA) in 2002, a big brother network using the Pentagon integrated with local police to spy on the activities of all Americans.
		DARPA was also instrumental in developing machines that pierce your clothes and give crystal-clear images of your naked body.
	www.infowars.com /print/ps/darpa_engineer.htm (1487 words)

	DARPA
		DARPA's Software for Distributed Robotics (SDR) program is developing robot behavior and software to enable very large groups of very small, very inexpensive robots to perform useful tasks.
		Darpa's LifeLog initiative is part of its "cognitive computing" research.
		Darpa is sprinkling around $7.3 million in research contracts (a drop in its $2.7 billion budget) to develop PAL, the Perceptive Assistant that Learns.
	www.valdostamuseum.org /hamsmith/darpa.html (981 words)

	Small Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems
		DARPA is best known for creating the Internet in the early 1970s, but in recent years the agency has driven the development of wavelength division multiplexing and Gigabit Ethernet.
		DARPA traditionally works with defense contractors, but in recent years the agency has sought out network equipment suppliers, such as Hewlett-Packard, Lucent and IBM, to participate in research projects related to microelectronics, photonics and wireless communications.
		DARPA officials say the economic downturn is encouraging more companies to work with them on network research projects such as these.
	www.smalltimes.com /document_display.cfm?document_id=2416 (1182 words)

	EETimes.com - AI quest goes small-concept (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Last year, Darpa began ratcheting up its cognitive-computing efforts for the 21st century, making the discipline a "strategic thrust" for its Information Processing Technology Office and charging IPTO with the heady task of chipping away at the big-AI problem.
		Darpa awarded $7 million to Carnegie-Mellon University's School of Computer Science (Pittsburgh) for work on a PAL dubbed Radar, which formally stands for Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning but is also a winking reference to the eponymous administrative assistant in the TV series MASH.
		But he expressed confidence that there are enough of the pro-evaluation researchers to support all of Darpa's efforts, noting that the bigger problem could be to follow through on the daunting task of crafting metrics for quantifying such cognitive functions as learning.
	www.eetimes.com /story/OEG20030728S0026 (1510 words)

	Wired News: Darpa's Ditziness Dents Budget (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Darpa got too much of the wrong kind of publicity, the kind that invites mockery and ridicule, and now the agency is paying the price," Steven Aftergood, with the Federation of American Scientists, wrote in an e-mail.
		Funds from Darpa helped launch Duke University's Center for Neuroengineering, where Craig Henriquez was one of a team of researchers developing techniques to control mechanical limbs using brain power alone.
		Darpa has a long history of going after the far-fetched, the seemingly impossible.
	www.wired.com /news/print/0,1294,60453,00.html (980 words)

	The Wild Weapons of DARPA
		DARPA has taken up the torch and is funding a rigorous research program aimed at finding novel ways to weaponize the natural world.
		DARPA researchers are also at work on the "Brain Machine Interface" ("neuromics") project, designed as a mind/machine interface, allowing mechanical devices to be controlled via thought-power.
		Says DARPA, "The long-term Defense implications of finding ways to turn thoughts into acts, if it can be developed, are enormous: imagine U.S. warfighters that only need use the power of their thoughts to do things at great distances." For years, the U.S. military has been improving its ability to reach out and kill someone.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0305-01.htm (2220 words)

	The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Initially, DARPA reported to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary, it later came under the Under Secretary of Defense, and more recently under the Director for Defense Research and Engineering.
		Today, DARPA is an organization of 240 personnel (approximately 140 of which are technical) directly managing a budget of $2 billion.
		DARPA's ability to adapt rapidly to changing situations and to embrace opportunities in both technology and processes, while maintaining the proven founding principles of the Agency, makes DARPA a unique research and development organization and the crown jewel in Defense research and development.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /pages/darpa.html (340 words)

	RFC 823 (rfc823) - DARPA Internet gateway
		-2- DARPA Internet Gateway September 1982 RFC 823 This document describes the implementation of this new gateway which incorporates several mechanisms for operations activities, is coded in assembly language for maximum space- efficiency, but otherwise is fundamentally the same architecture as the older, research-oriented, implementations.
		The entry consists of a network number and the address of the neighbor gateway on the shortest route to the network, or else an indication that the -7- DARPA Internet Gateway September 1982 RFC 823 gateway is directly connected to the network.
		The use of the EGP permits the user to perceive all of the networks and gateways as part of one total Internet system, even though the "exterior" gateways are disjoint and may use a routing algorithm that is different and not compatible with that used in the "interior" gateways.
	www.faqs.org /rfcs/rfc823.html (5410 words)

	DARPA figures out how to run a $2m robot race \| The Register
		DARPA on Monday released its outline for the Grand Challenge II robot race to be held in October of next year.
		DARPA has also set up a lengthy but precise qualification schedule to separate the robot gimps from the true contenders, hoping to avoid this year's Grand Challenge I flop.
		DARPA was hit with a flood of last-minute entries in the first race that made it difficult for the agency to decide which teams qualified to compete in the event, which requires unmanned vehicles to race across the Mojave Desert.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2004/08/03/darpa_rules_gctwo (790 words)

	DARPA - a Whatis.com definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the independent research branch of the U.S. Department of Defense that funded a project that in time was to lead to the creation of the Internet.
		Originally called ARPA (the "D" was added to its name later), DARPA came into being in 1958 as a reaction to the success of Sputnik, Russia's first manned satellite.
		DARPA's explicit mission was (and still is) to think independently of the rest of the military and to respond quickly and innovatively to national defense challenges.
	whatis.techtarget.com /gDefinition/0,294236,sid40_gci213656,00.html (196 words)

	GC I (Last Event) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		DARPA conducted the inaugural Grand Challenge for autonomous ground vehicles between Los Angeles and Las Vegas on March 13th, 2004.
		We were acknowledged by DARPA's own team and through independent sources as one of the few teams bringing truly groundbreaking technology to the party.
		There was a team meeting tonight and the DARPA officials made it clear that they want robots to pass the QID and are prepared to lower the bar somewhat to make this happen.
	www.digitalautodrive.com /darpa_grand_challenge.htm (1351 words)

	ElectricNews.net:News:DARPA kicks robot challenge into gear
		True to the original goals of the race, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has selected a wide variety of teams, ranging from well-funded robot experts at institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University (Red Team) to hobbyists cobbling together kit in their garage such as Team Phantasm based out of St. Louis.
		Early on, DARPA set an October deadline for teams to submit a technical paper that would judge whether or not they could participate in the robot vehicle race.
		Then, after an unexpectedly large number of papers rolled in, DARPA abruptly changed the rules, deciding to award 19 early applicants with an automatic spot in the race and saying the rest of the plebs could duke it out for just six openings.
	www.electricnews.net /news.html?code=9386041 (686 words)

	DARPA Oneway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Designated the DARPA One-way, the system was used by boarding personnel to enhance communications with non-English speaking merchant crews during boarding operations.
		The DARPA one way should enhance the boarding team’s ability to converse with the crew and record their responses.
		The MIO specific DARPA One-way system consists of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and voice recognition and translation software developed by Dragon Systems, Inc. The language module consists of approximately five hundred phrases and words translated into the four most common languages used in the Gulf: Arabic, Farsi, Hindi and Urdu.
	www.sarich.com /translator/MIO98 (1069 words)

	DARPA - FutureMAP Program - Policy Analysis Market (PAM) Cancelled
		The DARPA FutureMAP program will identify the types of market-based mechanisms that are most suitable to aggregate information in the defense context, will develop information systems to manage the markets, and will measure the effectiveness of markets for several tasks.
		DARPA believes it is important to continue funding research that examines how to better use advanced information technologies and processes as predictive tools for terrorist acts.
		In this case, the director of DARPA decided it was not worth pursuing.
	www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/tia/futuremap-program.htm (1791 words)

	CommsDesign - Darpa looks past Ethernet, IP nets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Darpa is pushing toward a world of ultralow-cost, low-power, ad hoc mesh networks.
		Darpa's vision is to create a new kind of peer-to-peer network for "edge-driven computing." Unlike Ethernet, that network will not depend on packets or predefined client/server topologies with guaranteed end-to-end connections.
		Darpa is doing its part in at least four major programs now under way.
	www.commsdesign.com /news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=19201035 (708 words)

	All Things Distributed: In Defense of DARPA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, suddenly has become the target of politicians and the news media.
		DARPA was only known to a part of the bigger public as the agency that funded the birth the TCP/IP/DNS protocol suite, but in general there aren't many outside the commercial and academic research labs that can really grasp the scope of DARPA's activities.
		It is not that DARPA should be kept free from criticism, many actually feel that DARPA should go back to taking more risks in the research projects, and shed some of its current bureaucratic nature.
	weblogs.cs.cornell.edu /AllThingsDistributed/archives/000111.html (844 words)

	EETimes.com - Darpa mobile project preps 'soldier's radio'
		The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa; Arlington, Va.) said it plans to demonstrate the infantry radio concept in the field as early as the summer of 2002.
		Darpa has adopted Linux as part of an open-systems approach to technology development.
		The Darpa mobile-communications program, also know as the "situational awareness system," would use high-capacity, low-power radios linked together by a "self-configuring" network to keep soldiers connected with each other at frequencies ranging from 20 MHz to 2.5 GHz.
	www.eet.com /story/OEG20010321S0049 (734 words)

	EETimes.com - Darpa kick starts wearable computer initiative
		Darpa said it will devote "tens of millions of dollars" to the so-called e-textiles program over the next five years, with the first projects slated to be announced early next year.
		While Darpa has its eye on military applications such as parachutes that generate solar power or track satellite signals, it expects to engender a broad range of commercial products as well.
		Darpa aims to spur development of new kinds of yarns, fabric interconnects and CAD tools for weaving into textiles the equivalent of a printed-circuit board.
	www.eetimes.com /story/OEG20011101S0054 (1695 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The March 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge was a wild playground, bringing together skunkworks and scientists, undergrad paupers and corporate wealth, and an assortment of weird vehicles Detroit would only see in a madness-induced reverie.
		The recent DARPA Grand Challenge was a wild playground, bringing together skunkworks and scientists, undergrad paupers and corporate wealth, and an assortment of weird vehicles Detroit would only see in a madness-induced reverie.
		In the end DARPA estimates they spent US$12 million dollars running this years challenge (US$1 million less than they budgeted for) which is a fraction of the costs they would spend of developing a core technology through traditional channels.
	www.viaarena.com /Default.aspx?PageID=5&ArticleID=66 (1931 words)

	UXOInfo.com Contractors Conner - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		DARPA funds projects and efforts that are in the very early stages of the engineering life cycle (concept exploration or proof of concept efforts).
		DARPA Phase II proposals are usually structured as follows: the first 10-12 months (base effort) costing approximately $375,000; the second 10-12 months of incremental funding also being approximately $375,000.
		As a result, DARPA may fund more than one proposal in a specific topic area if the technical quality of the proposal(s) is deemed superior, or it may not fund any proposals in a topic area.
	www.uxoinfo.com /uxoinfo/conoppdarpa.cfm (453 words)

	Hanging DARPA out to dry \| CNET News.com
		No doubt DARPA's role as the research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense presents an easy target for folks who assume the worst about the Bush administration or who are deeply suspect of Uncle Sam's real intentions.
		DARPA has not helped its own case by committing a series of forgettable PR gaffes that fed a veritable feeding frenzy.
		Hanging DARPA out to dry may satisfy some people, but the agency's job is to explore new ideas and research with an eye on how to enhance national security.
	news.com.com /2010-1071_3-5061329.html (1062 words)

	CNN.com - Robots fail to complete Grand Challenge - Mar 14, 2004
		DARPA gave each team a CD with the latitude and longitude of about 2000 waypoints that could be located through the robots onboard GPS equipment.
		DARPA's 20 biologists evaluated the course to make note of any tortoise burrows close to the race course, and set up temporary protective barriers around them.
		DARPA is expected to hold another challenge, possibly in 2006.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/ptech/03/14/darpa.race/index.html (921 words)

	Wired News: Darpa Offers No Food for Thought
		The Darpa project, called "Metabolic Dominance" or "peak soldier performance," is part of a wider, future-facing Pentagon research push to develop grunts who are pretty much immune to normal human demands.
		The agency has sunk millions into programs to reduce the need for sleep and is investigating ways to keep injured GIs pulling the trigger for days on end -- without help from a medic.
		Darpa wants to see if there are ways to burn fats without the side effects.
	wired.com /news/medtech/0,1286,62297,00.html?... (686 words)

	DARPA Calls on HP For Battlefield Duty
		Executives with HP and DARPA were not immediately available to comment on whether the award issued next week would be covered under DARPA's revised 2005 annual budget of $2.97 billion or its scheduled $3.08 billion budget for 2006.
		The advance in nanotechnology was supported by funding from DARPA and is an extension of a $12.5 million grant the HP Labs molecular electronics won in June 2001.
		DARPA also funded collaboration between HP and MIT called project Oxygen to explore new forms of pervasive computing, which produced advances in speech recognition, automated systems and location-based services.
	www.internetnews.com /bus-news/article.php/3493336 (602 words)

	Wired News: This Humvee Is Car and Driver
		The challenge is posed by Darpa: navigate over 200 miles of obstacle-strewn desert, making decisions and plotting a course with absolutely no human intervention.
		When Darpa's Grand Challenge begins March 13, Sandstorm will be fed coordinates, then released into the wild to find its way to the finish line -- or fail -- on its own.
		Darpa is offering a $1 million, winner-take-all prize for the team that creates the vehicle that can cover the route the fastest, but for Red Team leader, professor William "Red" Whittaker, the competition is not at all about the money.
	www.wired.com /news/autotech/0,2554,62333,00.html (986 words)

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