Download or read book The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies Perspectives on the U S Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency written by William Boone Bonvillian and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors have done a masterful job of charting the important story of DARPA, one of the key catalysts of technological innovation in US recent history. By plotting the development, achievements and structure of the leading world agency of this kind, this book stimulates new thinking in the field of technological innovation with bearing on how to respond to climate change, pandemics, cyber security and other global problems of our time. The DARPA Model provides a useful guide for governmental agency and policy leaders, and for anybody interested in the role of governments in technological innovation. —Dr. Kent Hughes, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars This volume contains a remarkable collection of extremely insightful articles on the world’s most successful advanced technology agency. Drafted by the leading US experts on DARPA, it provides a variety of perspectives that in turn benefit from being presented together in a comprehensive volume. It reviews DARPA’s unique role in the U.S. innovation system, as well as the challenges DARPA and its clones face today. As the American model is being considered for adoption by a number of countries worldwide, this book makes a welcome and timely contribution to the policy dialogue on the role played by governments in stimulating technological innovation. — Prof. Charles Wessner, Georgetown University The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has played a remarkable role in the creation new transformative technologies, revolutionizing defense with drones and precision-guided munitions, and transforming civilian life with portable GPS receivers, voice-recognition software, self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, and, most famously, the ARPANET and its successor, the Internet. Other parts of the U.S. Government and some foreign governments have tried to apply the ‘DARPA model’ to help develop valuable new technologies. But how and why has DARPA succeeded? Which features of its operation and environment contribute to this success? And what lessons does its experience offer for other U.S. agencies and other governments that want to develop and demonstrate their own ‘transformative technologies’? This book is a remarkable collection of leading academic research on DARPA from a wide range of perspectives, combining to chart an important story from the Agency’s founding in the wake of Sputnik, to the current attempts to adapt it to use by other federal agencies. Informative and insightful, this guide is essential reading for political and policy leaders, as well as researchers and students interested in understanding the success of this agency and the lessons it offers to others.

Download or read book Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Technology Transition written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was created in 1958 to ensure technological superiority for U.S. military forces by fostering innovation and pursuing high-payoff, frequently high-risk projects. Each conflict since that time has demonstrated the wisdom of having an entrepreneurial technical organization unfettered by tradition or conventional thinking. For example, in Operation Desert Storm, the Persian Gulf War of 1990, some of the revolutionary capabilities, such as the F-117 stealth fighter, the Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS), and the Precision Guided Munitions were the direct result of initiatives of this small agency in the preceding years. Successful though DARPA has been, the introduction of new capabilities into our forces has been relatively slow for a variety of reasons. It is important to examine past transitions of technology to military applications in order to improve the processes and to understand the right investment strategies. Introducing high-quality military capabilities is obviously important and, historically, has been the department's dominant goal. In today's less certain world, in which many potential adversaries have access to technology almost as rapidly as does the U. S. military, the time it takes to apply new technology takes on new significance. It is hoped that this study will go a long way to focus attention on improving the transition process and timeline.

Download or read book Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into orbit in 1957, the U.S. government made a commitment to initiate, rather than react to, strategic technological surprises. DOD relies on DARPA's disruptive innovations to maintain this promise, backed by congressional appropriations of over $2.9 billion in fiscal year 2015 alone. In April 2015, DOD reported that U.S. technological superiority is again being challenged by potential adversaries and renewed efforts to improve its products. Meanwhile, GAO found deficiencies in DOD's technology transition processes that may hinder these efforts and DARPA's goals. Senate Report 113-176 included a provision for GAO to review DOD's technology transition processes, practices, and results. This report focuses on DARPA and assesses its (1) effectiveness at transitioning technologies since fiscal year 2010, including identifying factors that contribute to successful transitions, and (2) implementation of DOD policies and programs intended to facilitate technology transition. GAO reviewed DARPA programs completed since 2010; identified transition factors by analyzing program documentation for a random sample of 10 cases; reviewed DOD policies; and interviewed DOD officials.

Download or read book Technology Transfer at DARPA written by Ronald G. Havelock and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 21st Century Essential Guide to DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Doing Business with DARPA Overview of Mission Management Projects DoD Future Military Technologies and Science written by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook presents a magnificent compilation of authoritative Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) documents providing an excellent, up-to-date overview of the research work of this famed agency, along with information on doing business with DARPA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's mission calls for radical innovation for national security, searching worldwide for revolutionary high-payoff 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/operational and tactical levels of deployment and warfare; Small Unit Operations Situational Awareness System (SUO SAS); FCS-C Gateway enables network interoperability; XG Communications program; Optical and Radio Frequency Combined Link Experiment provides links to forces fixed and on-the-move; Dynamic Multi-Terabit Core Optical Networks: Architecture, Protocols, Control and Management; Chip-Scale Atomic Clock: ultra-miniaturized, low-power, atomic time and frequency reference units; DARPA's goal: eliminate barriers between Intelligence (J-2) and Operations (J-3); Networked operations... Figure 18: A composite image of a tank under trees formed from observations by a ladar sensor; aids help manage and adjust sensor routes to cover moving targets; Wasp micro air vehicle; Command Post of the Future; Warfighters in a DARPA Training Superiority program classroom; Unmanned Vehicles - the increasing challenge of autonomy; A-160 vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned air vehicle (UAV); The winner, 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge - Stanford's Stanley; Cave entrance; Underground facility; DARPA's space thrust; Falcon program's Hypersonic Cruise Vehicle; Falcon Small Launch Vehicle (SpaceX's Falcon I); Major themes supporting enhanced decision-making; Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL); HPCS accomplishments, plans, and performance objectives; Global Autonomous Language Exploitation; Bio-inspired "Big Dog" quadruped robot is being developed as a "mule" that can traverse difficult terrain; Exoskeleton; Schematic of 3-D circuit employing advanced functionality in each layer and reducing; the length of critical signal paths; DARPA's Strategic Thrusts and QDR Priorities. This is a privately authored news service and educational publication of Progressive Management.

Download or read book The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency s Technology Transfer Process written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency written by Michael J. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into orbit in 1957, the U.S. government made a commitment to initiate, rather than react to, strategic technological surprises. The Department of Defense (DOD) relies on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA's) disruptive innovations to maintain this promise, backed by congressional appropriations of over $2.9 billion in FY 20156 alone. DOD has reported that U.S. technological superiority is again being challenged by potential adversaries and renewed efforts to improve its products. This report assesses DARPA's (1) effectiveness at transitioning technologies since FY 2010, including identifying factors that contribute to successful transitions; and (2) implementation of DOD policies and programs intended to facilitate technology transition. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.

Download or read book The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency s Transition of Advanced Information Technology Programs written by United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force for the Investment Strategy for DARPA written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Accelerating Technology Transition written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-11-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accelerating the transition of new technologies into systems and products will be crucial to the Department of Defenses development of a lighter, more flexible fighting force. Current long transition times-ten years or more is now typical-are attributed to the complexity of the process. To help meet these challenges, the Department of Defense asked the National Research Council to examine lessons learned from rapid technology applications by integrated design and manufacturing groups. This report presents the results of that study, which was based on a workshop held to explore these successful cases. Three key areas emerged: creating a culture for innovation and rapid technology transition; methodologies and approaches; and enabling tools and databases.

Download or read book Information Technology The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency s Transition of Advanced Information Technology Programs written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress and DoD officials have voiced concern that technology has not quickly transitioned to the warfighter. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's mission is to develop imaginative, innovative, and often high-risk research ideas offering a significant technological impact on DoD and commercial systems. The primary role of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is to act as the technical change leader for the DoD and its mission is to promote revolutionary technical innovations to support our national security.

Download or read book Program Information Package for Defense Technology Conversion Reinvestment and Transition Assistance written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses defense industry and technology base activities under eight separate statutory authority programs and sets forth planned selection criteria by which proposals received under a future solicitation will be evaluated. Covers: technology reinvestment activities (technology development, technology deployment, and manufacturing education and training), and eligibility and statutory programs. Also, planning for submission of proposals.

Download or read book The Imagineers of War written by Sharon Weinberger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency’s original mission was to create “the unimagined weapons of the future.” Over the decades, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that extend well beyond military technology. Sharon Weinberger gives us a riveting account of DARPA’s successes and failures, its remarkable innovations, and its wild-eyed schemes. We see how the threat of nuclear Armageddon sparked investment in computer networking, leading to the Internet, as well as to a proposal to power a missile-destroying particle beam by draining the Great Lakes. We learn how DARPA was responsible during the Vietnam War for both Agent Orange and the development of the world’s first armed drones, and how after 9/11 the agency sparked a national controversy over surveillance with its data-mining research. And we see how DARPA’s success with self-driving cars was followed by disappointing contributions to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Weinberger has interviewed more than one hundred former Pentagon officials and scientists involved in DARPA’s projects—many of whom have never spoken publicly about their work with the agency—and pored over countless declassified records from archives around the country, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and exclusive materials provided by sources. The Imagineers of War is a compelling and groundbreaking history in which science, technology, and politics collide.

Download or read book Defense technology development management process can be strengthened for new technology transition programs report to congressional committees written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency s Technology Transfer Process A Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The methodology for this study included: study of technology transfer barriers and catalysts; interviews with key people inside and outside DARPA; and research relative to previous studies, bearing on the subject of technology transfer as relates to DARPA. Differences between the role of DARPA contrasted with that of the Services and other Agencies make smooth technology transfer to the Services/Agencies a difficult process, particularly as regards the Large Technology Demonstrations. It is fundamental that the Services/Agencies are the ultimate procurers of material resulting from successful DARPA initiatives. Hence, an optimal system for technology transfer, one which is comfortable both to DARPA and the Services/Agencies is of great importance to the nation. DARPA's role and philosophy can be broadly characterized as: Opportunity driven, Creative new concepts, Bold new initiatives, Order of magnitude leaps forward, and Revolutionary breakthroughs. On the other hand, the Services' role and philosophy can be broadly characterized as: Need driven, Near term urgencies, Identified missions, Careful (smaller) steps and minimum risk, System life cycle cost effectives and Orderly phasing of evolutionary technology advancements. These fundamental differences make it understandable that barriers arise to inhibit timely smooth transfer of technology from DARPA to the Services.

Download or read book The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies written by Richard van Atta and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has played a remarkable role in the creation new transformative technologies, revolutionizing defense with drones and precision-guided munitions, and transforming civilian life with portable GPS receivers, voice-recognition software, self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, and, most famously, the ARPANET and its successor, the Internet. Other parts of the U.S. Government and some foreign governments have tried to apply the 'DARPA model' to help develop valuable new technologies. But how and why has DARPA succeeded? Which features of its operation and environment contribute to this success? And what lessons does its experience offer for other U.S. agencies and other governments that want to develop and demonstrate their own 'transformative technologies'? This book is a remarkable collection of leading academic research on DARPA from a wide range of perspectives, combining to chart an important story from the Agency's founding in the wake of Sputnik, to the current attempts to adapt it to use by other federal agencies. Informative and insightful, this guide is essential reading for political and policy leaders, as well as researchers and students interested in understanding the success of this agency and the lessons it offers to others.