DARPA is arguably America’s most successful R&D organization, having supported the key technologies behind such seminal developments as the Internet, satellite positioning systems, modern computer interfaces such as the mouse, SpaceX’s rockets, and self-driving cars, since its founding in 1958.
I wrote about DARPA’s history, how it works, and some of its key programs in my book The Department of Mad Scientists.
The agency runs lean compared with the rest of the Department of Defense. Its budget is currently about $2.8 billion a year, Prabhakar told Charlie Rose, and that gets spread out to a wide array of academic and private sector labs and workshops that do the work of attempting to realize the mad schemes dreamed up by DARPA’s 100 or so program managers.
Prabhakar cited the agency’s prize contests as an important tool in DARPA’s innovation arsenal. Among these, DARPA’s disaster response robot competition, the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) has the highest profile.
I conducted my own interview with Prabhakar at the DRC Trials in Florida at the end of 2013.
The next DRC event, the DRC Finals, will be held at the Fairplex in Southern California on June 5 and 6.
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DARPA Director Arti Prabhakar on what's next in extreme tech
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