Darpa

Executive Summary

The development of new technologies and software for military applications will eventually find its way into the private sector, increasing the technologies that we live with in our day-to-day lives. The ongoing revolution in technologies in the form of electronics and computers has transformed the nature of war and eventually the way private sector conducts business as well. There are certain historical imperatives for the innovation and application of science and technology in warfare. These technologies, in turn, influence patterns of production, consumption, distribution, policies of Governments as well as relations among nations.

The nuclear age was born through the development of the atomic bomb as a means to end World War II. Nazi Germany development of the V2 Rocket and the subsequent research and development by the United States and Soviet Union created the “Space Race,” the Cold War and the race for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. These technologies have found there way into the private and commercial applications in the form of Nuclear power plants, space exploration, and the deployment of many of the satellites that orbit the earth providing the world with telecommunications that is used by businesses everyday. This new technologic “arms race” is a dynamic field that is ever changing by reinventing weapons, weapons capabilities, and our lives. At the forefront of this technological race is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia.

The DARPA has more than 100 scientists, including computer, biologists, material specialists, Microsystems experts, mathematicians, and engineers that are designing, researching and innovating a staggering variety of new technologies. The DARPA mission has changed several times over the years. The aftershock of technological innovations of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik mission caused the United States to create the formation of an agency to track and develop new...