Launched as ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) in 1958, then gaining a "D" for Defense a decade later, DARPA has been a bulwark of US invention and innovation for over 50 years. The agency was ...

DARPA was commissioned in 1958 by The Advanced Research Projects Agency “ARPA” to develop military technology for the nation. It was renamed in 1972. The mission of the research agency was to create ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) recently announced progress on a pair of characteristically futuristic projects: a computer chip that works like the human brain and a mission to ...

For most of its history, DARPA was a shadow. Eisenhower signed the agency, then called ARPA, into being in 1958, in an America still trying to forget images of mustard and chlorine gas, one still ...