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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense; responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since 9/11;
[syn: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

DARPA n 1: the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense; responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since 9/11 [syn: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA]
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (org., USA)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA DARPA Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA, ARPA) An agency of the US Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. DARPA was established in 1958 in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik, with the mission of keeping the US's military technology ahead of its enemies. DARPA is independent from other more conventional military R&D and reports directly to senior DoD management. DARPA has around 240 personnel (about 140 technical) directly managing a $2 billion budget. These figures are "on average" since DARPA focusses on short (two to four-year) projects run by small, purpose-built teams. ARPA was its original name, then it was renamed DARPA (for Defense) in 1972, then back to ARPA [When?], and then, incredibly, back to DARPA again on 1996-03-11! ARPA was responsible for funding development of ARPANET (which grew into the Internet), as well as the Berkeley version of Unix and TCP/IP. (http://darpa.mil/). History (/pub/misc/darpa). (1999-07-17)