DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Currently, DARPA's mission statement is “to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security.”

DARPA Media

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  DARPA's former headquarters in the Virginia Square neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia. The agency is currently located in a new building at 675 North Randolph St.

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  Logo of DARPA's Information Awareness Office, a 2001 program that promoted “Total Information Awareness” and was defunded in 2003 amid public backlash.

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  Roy W. Johnson, DARPA Director, 1958-1959.

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  General Austin W. Betts, DARPA Director, 1960 – 1961.

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  Jack P. Ruina, DARPA Director, 1961 – 1963.

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  Portrait of en:Robert Sproull, President of the en:University of Rochester, from the 1970 edition of the Interpres (the university's yearbook).

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  Portrait of Charles M. Herzfeld, Director of Defense Research and Engineering

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  Eberhardt Rechtin, a respected authority in aerospace systems. Photograph Number P-1490B

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  Portrait of Stephen J. Lukasik in 1990

• The formative years(1958–1975)

• The Cold War era(1975–1989)

• The post-Soviet years(1989–present)