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The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet.
During the late 1960s, with the transfer of these mature programs to the Services, ARPA redefined its role and concentrated on a diverse set of relatively small, essentially exploratory research programs. The agency was renamed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1972, and during the early 1970s, it emphasized direct energy ...
Over the years, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has conducted a number of prize competitions to spur innovations.A prize competition allows DARPA to establish an ambitious goal, which makes public way for novel approaches from the public that might otherwise appear too risky to undertake by experts in a particular discipline.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) Department of the Air Force.
In 1958, the first Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA, was created in response to an unanticipated surprise—the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. The ARPA model was designed to anticipate and pre-empt such technological surprises.
ARPA-E, or Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy is a United States government agency tasked with promoting and funding research and development of advanced energy technologies. It is modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Since January 2023, the director is Evelyn Wang. [1]
This category contains articles related to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an agency of the United States Department of Defense. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
The name originally was the acronym for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the funding organization in the United States that developed the ARPANET, the precursor of the Internet. It was the first domain defined for the network in preparation for a hierarchical naming system for the delegation of authority, autonomy, and responsibility.