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2008 DARPA Digest - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - Overview of Mission, Management, and Major Current Projects, Doing Business with DARPA (Ringbound)
2008 DARPA Digest Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Overview of Mission Management and Major Current Projects Doing Business with DARPA - Ringbound Author:Department of Defense This ringbound book provides an up-to-date overview of the work of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), along with information on doing business with this vital DoD agency. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's mission calls for radical innovation for national security, searching worldwide for revolutionary high-payof... more »f ideas. Doing business with DARPA includes: Getting you ideas considered by a DARPA program manager, broad agency announcements, program solicitations, small business innovation research (SBIR), and toolkit of agreement instruments. Contents of this digest include: Mission, Management, and Organization; DARPA s Role; Shaping Programs; Major Accomplishments ;Transitioning Technologies; Current Strategic Thrusts; Robust, Secure, Self-Forming Networks; Detection, Precision ID, Tracking, and Destruction of Elusive Targets; Urban Area Operations; Advanced Manned and Unmanned Systems; Detection, Characterization, and Assessment of Underground Structures; Space; Increasing the Tooth to Tail Ratio; Bio-Revolution; Core Technologies; Quantum Science and Technology; Bio-Info-MicroMaterials; Power and Energy; Microsystems; Information Technology; Mathematics; Manufacturing Science and Technology; Lasers; Strategy and Programs in Context; Strategic Thrusts Supporting Quadrennial Defense Review Priorities; Programs and Budget Supporting DARPA s Strategic Thrusts; Special Assistant for Technology Transition; DARPA Operational Liaisons and Representatives DARPA s organization; Timelines and investments in science and technology; DARPA s role in science and technology; DARPA s Basic Research funding; Total S&T funding in DoD and DARPA; DARPA s senior leadership and technical program managers have visited numerous; military bases, commands, training centers, and other Defense facilities; Key DARPA accomplishments spanning more than four decades; DARPA transition methods; Bridging the Network-Centric Operations gap between strategic/opera« less