BIG MOTHERF*CKING BROTHER IS WATCHING EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU, HUMANS: D A R P A The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military. DARPA has been responsible for funding the development of many technologies which have had a major effect on the world, including computer networking, as well as NLS, which was both the first hypertext system, and an important precursor to the contemporary ubiquitous graphical user interface. DARPA began as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) created in 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the purpose of forming and executing research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science and able to reach far beyond immediate military requirements. The administration was responding to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957, and ARPAs mission was to ensure U.S. military technology be more sophisticated than that of the nations potential enemies. From DARPAs own introduction: AND TO SPY ON EVERY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ! ! DARPA’s original mission, established in 1958, was to prevent technological surprise like the launch of Sputnik, which signaled that the Soviets had beaten the U.S. into space. The mission statement has evolved over time. Today, DARPA’s mission is still to prevent technological surprise to the US, but also to create technological surprise for our enemies. AND TO SPY ON EVERY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ! ! ARPA was renamed to DARPA (for Defense) in March 1972, then renamed ARPA in February 1993, and then renamed DARPA again in March 1996. AND TO SPY ON EVERY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ! ! DARPA is independent from other more conventional military research and development and reports directly to senior Department of Defense management. DARPA has around 240 personnel (about 140 technical) directly managing a $2.8 billion budget. These figures are on average since DARPA focuses on short-term (two to four year) projects run by small, purpose-built teams. AND TO SPY ON EVERY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ! ! DARPA achievements for the past 50 years Early history The creation of DARPA was authorized by President Eisenhower in 1958 for the purpose of forming and executing research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, and able to reach far beyond immediate military requirements., the two relevant acts being the Supplemental Military Construction Authorization (Air Force) (Public Law 85-325) and Department of Defense Directive 5105.15, in February 1958. Its creation was directly attributed to the launching of Sputnik and to U.S. realization that the Soviet Union had developed the capacity to rapidly exploit military technology. AND TO SPY ON EVERY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ! ! Additionally, the political and defense communities recognized the need for a high-level Department of Defense organization to formulate and execute R&D projects that would expand the frontiers of technology beyond the immediate and specific requirements of the Military Services and their laboratories. In pursuit of this mission, DARPA has developed and transferred technology programs encompassing a wide range of scientific disciplines which address the full spectrum of national security needs. AND TO SPY ON EVERY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ! ! From 1958 to 1965, ARPAs emphasis centered on major national issues, including space, ballistic missile defense, and nuclear test detection. During 1960, all of its civilian space programs were transferred to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the military space programs to the individual Services. AND TO SPY ON EVERY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ! ! This allowed ARPA to concentrate its efforts on the Project Defender (defense against ballistic missiles), Project Vela (nuclear test detection), and Project AGILE (counterinsurgency R&D) Programs, and to begin work on computer processing, behavioral sciences, and materials sciences. The DEFENDER and AGILE Programs formed the foundation of DARPA sensor, surveillance, and directed energy R&D, particularly in the study of radar, infrared sensing, and x-ray/gamma ray detection. AND TO SPY ON EVERY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ! ! ARPA at this point (1959) played an early role in Transit (also called NavSat) a predecessor to the Global Positioning System (GPS). Fast-forward to 1959 when a joint effort between DARPA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory began to fine-tune the early explorers’ discoveries. TRANSIT, sponsored by the Navy and developed under the leadership of Dr. Richard Kirschner at Johns Hopkins, was the first satellite positioning system. AND TO SPY ON EVERY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ! ! During the late 1960s, with the transfer of these mature programs to the Services, ARPA redefined its role and concentrated on a diverse set of relatively small, essentially exploratory research programs. The agency was renamed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1972, and during the early 1970s, it emphasized direct energy programs, information processing, and tactical technologies. AND TO SPY ON EVERY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ! ! Concerning information processing, DARPA made great progress, initially through its support of the development of time-sharing (all modern operating systems rely on concepts invented for the Multics system, developed by a cooperation among Bell Labs, General Electric and MIT, which DARPA supported by funding Project MAC at MIT with an initial two-million-dollar grant). AND TO SPY ON EVERY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ! ! DARPA supported the evolution of the ARPANET (the first wide-area packet switching network), Packet Radio Network, Packet Satellite Network and ultimately, the Internet and research in the artificial intelligence fields of speech recognition and signal processing, including parts of Shakey the robot. DARPA also funded the development of the Douglas Engelbarts NLS computer system and The Mother of All Demos; and the Aspen Movie Map, which was probably the first hypermedia system and an important precursor of virtual reality. 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