Definition

1. Noun:
   • The central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a U.S. government agency responsible for the development of emerging technologies for military use. Its mission is to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency often funds high-risk, high-reward research projects.
  • Many modern technologies, such as the internet precursor ARPANET, originated from initiatives by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Advanced Usage

• "DARPA": This is the common acronym for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
  • DARPA is known for its role in fostering innovation.
• "DARPA-funded": Used as an adjective to describe projects or research financed by the agency.
  • The university is conducting DARPA-funded research into autonomous systems.

Variants and Related Words

• DARPA (n): The standard acronym for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
• Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) (n): The agency's original name before "Defense" was added in 1972; the name was briefly reverted to ARPA from 1993 to 1996.

Synonyms

• Research and development agency: A general term for an organization focused on technological innovation.
• Military research agency: An organization dedicated to scientific research for defense applications.

Related Phrases

• "To secure DARPA funding": To obtain financial support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a research proposal.
  • The team worked tirelessly to secure DARPA funding for their robotics project.
• "A DARPA challenge": Refers to a specific competition or technological grand challenge issued by the agency to stimulate innovation.
  • Winning the DARPA challenge was a major achievement for the engineering team.

Noun

1. the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense; responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since 9/11