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Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA)
•Military focus: Some emphasis on networking systems that find targets and systems that kill targets.
•Short/middle-term time horizon:  Departure from historical support of longer-term research.
•Programs are increasingly classified, thereby excluding most academic institutions.  Also a departure from historical support of university researchers.
•Assumes other agencies, especially NSF, will fund basic research—DARPA’s (new) mission is to incorporate pre-existing technology into products for the military.