What is "darpa"

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.

DARPA was created in February 1958 as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Its purpose was to formulate and execute research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, with the aim to reach beyond immediate military requirements. The administration was created in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957, and DARPA's mission was to ensure U.S. military technology would be more sophisticated than that of the nation's potential enemies.

The name of the organization changed several times from its founding name ARPA: DARPA (March 1972), ARPA (February 1993), and DARPA (March 1996).

DARPA is independent from other military research and development and reports directly to senior Department of Defense management. DARPA has about 240 employees, of whom 13 are in management, and close to 140 are technical staff.

DARPA-funded projects have provided significant technologies that influenced many non-military fields, such as computer networking and graphical user interfaces in information technology.

Darpa is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. Their distribution is restricted to the Indo-Chinese region.

DARPA may refer to:

• DARPA, an agency of the US Government
• DARPANET, aka ARPANET, the first operational packet switching network of a set that came to compose the global Internet
• DARPA Agent Markup Language, focused on the creation of machine-readable representations for the Web
• DARPA Falcon Project
• DARPA Grand Challenge, a prize competition for driverless vehicles
  • DARPA Grand Challenge (2007), third driverless car competition
• DARPA Network Challenge, a prize competition for exploring the roles the Internet and social networking play in the real-time communications
• DARPA Silent Talk, aka Brain–computer interface, a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device
• Darpa, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
• Darpa (butterfly), a genus of skipper butterfly