Past or transitioned projects
AGM-158C LRASM: Anti-ship cruise missile. [93]
Adaptive Vehicle Make: Revolutionary approaches to the design, verification, and manufacturing of complex defense systems and vehicles.
ArcLight: Ship-based weapon system capable of striking targets nearly anywhere on the globe, based on the Standard Missile 3.
ARPA Midcourse Optical Station (AMOS), a research facility that now forms part of the Haleakala Observatory.
ARPANET, earliest predecessor of the Internet.
ASTOVL, precursor of the Joint Strike Fighter program[94]
The Aspen Movie Map allowed one to virtually tour the streets of Aspen, Colorado. Developed in 1978, it is the earliest predecessor to products like Google Street View.[citation needed]
Atlas: A humanoid robot.
The Boeing X-45 unmanned combat aerial vehicle refers to a mid-2000s concept demonstrator for autonomous military aircraft.
Boomerang (mobile shooter detection system): an acoustic gunfire locator developed by BBN Technologies for detecting snipers on military combat vehicles.
CALO or "Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes": software
CPOF: the command post of the future—networked information system for Command control.
ALASA: (Airborne Launch Assist Space Access): A rocket capable of launching a 100-pound satellite into low Earth orbit for less than $1 million.
DARPA Network Challenge (before 2010)[97]
DARPA Shredder Challenge 2011[98] – Reconstruction of shredded documents
DARPA Silent Talk: A planned program attempting to identify EEG patterns for words and transmit these for covert communications.[99]
DEFENDER
Defense Simulation Internet, a wide-area network supporting Distributed Interactive Simulation
Discoverer II radar satellite constellation
GALE: Global Autonomous Language Exploitation
High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP): An ionospheric research program jointly funded by DARPA, the U.S. Air Force's AFRL and the U.S. Navy's NRL.[101] The most prominent area during this research was the high-power radio frequency transmitter facility, which tested the use of the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI).
Human Universal Load Carrier: battery-powered human exoskeleton.
Luke Arm, a DEKA creation produced under the Revolutionizing Prosthetics program.
MAHEM: Molten penetrating munition.
Mind's Eye: A visual intelligence system capable of detecting and analyzing activity from video feeds.[103]
Next Generation Tactical Wearable Night Vision: Smaller and lighter sunglass-sized night vision devices that can switch between different viewing bands.[104][105]
NLS/Augment: the origin of the canonical contemporary computer user interface
Northrop Grumman Switchblade: an unmanned oblique-wing flying aircraft for high speed, long range and long endurance flight
One Shot: Sniper scope that automatically measures crosswind and range to ensure accuracy in field conditions.[106]
Onion routing, a technique developed in the mid-1990s and later employed by Tor to anonymize communications over a computer network.
Phoenix: A 2012–early-2015 satellite project with the aim to recycle retired satellite parts into new on-orbit assets. The project was initiated in July 2012 with plans for system launches no earlier than 2016.[107][108] At the time, Satlet tests in low Earth orbit were projected to occur as early as 2015.[109][needs update]
Policy Analysis Market, evaluating the trading of information futures contracts based on possible political developments in several Middle Eastern countries. An application of prediction markets.[110][111][112]
Project AGILE, a Vietnam War-era investigation into methods of remote, asymmetric warfare for use in conflicts with Communist insurgents.
Proto 2: a thought-controlled prosthetic arm
Rapid Knowledge Formation[citation needed]
SIMNET: Wide area network with vehicle simulators and displays for real-time distributed combat simulation: tanks, helicopters and airplanes in a virtual battlefield.
System F6—Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated Free-flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange—technology demonstrator: a 2006–2012
I3 (Intelligent Integration of Information),[113] supported the Digital Library research effort through NSF
Strategic Computing Program
Synthetic Aperture Ladar for Tactical Applications (SALTI)
XOS: powered military exoskeleton $226 million technology development program. Cancelled in 2013 before the notionally planned 2015 launch date.[107][109]
SURAN (1983–87)
Project Vela (1963)
Vulture: Long endurance, high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle.
VLSI Project[when?] – Its offspring include BSD Unix, the RISC processor concept, many CAD tools still in use today.[citation needed]
Walrus HULA: high-capacity, long range cargo airship.
Wireless Network after Next (WNaN), advanced tactical mobile ad hoc network
WolfPack (2010)[114]
Notable fiction[edit]
DARPA is well known as a high-tech government agency, and as such has many appearances in popular fiction. Some realistic references to DARPA in fiction are as "ARPA" in Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X (DARPA consults on a technical threat),[115] in episodes of television program The West Wing (the ARPA-DARPA distinction), the television program Numb3rs[116]
See also[edit]
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL or LBL)
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Further reading[edit]
The Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1958-1974, Barber Associates, December 1975.
DARPA Technical Accomplishments: 1958-1990, Volumes 1-3, Richard H. Van Atta, Sidney G. Reed, Seymour J. Deitchman, et al., Institute for Defense Analyses, January 1990 - March 1991.
Belfiore, Michael (2009). The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs. Harper. ISBN 9780061577932. OCLC 310399265. William Saletan writes of Belfiore's book that "His tone is reverential and at times breathless, but he captures the agency’s essential virtues: boldness, creativity, agility, practicality and speed." (Saletan, William (December 24, 2009). "The Body Electric". The New York Times.)
Castell, Manuel, The Network Society: A Cross-cultural Perspective, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK, 2004.
Jacobsen, Annie, The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency. Little, Brown and Company. 2015. ISBN 978-0316371766. OCLC 900012161.
Sargent, John F., Jr. (February 21, 2018). Defense Science and Technology Funding (PDF). Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
Sedgwick, John (August 1991). "The Men from DARPA". Playboy. Vol. 3 no. 8. pp. 108–109, 122, 154–156.
Weinberger, Sharon, The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency that Changed the World, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2017, ISBN 9780385351799.
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