The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies
Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has played a remarkable role in the creation new transformative technologies, revolutionizing defense with stealth drones and precision-guided munitions, and transforming civilian life with portable GPS receivers, voice-recognition so ware, self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, and, most famously, the ARPANET and its successor, the Internet.
Other parts of the U.S. Government and some foreign governments have tried to appl...
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- Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
- Collection : OBP collection
- Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
- Année d’édition : 2019
- Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 29 janvier 2021
- EAN (Édition imprimée) : 9781783747917
- EAN électronique : 9791036560811
- Nombre de pages : xx-485 p.
DARPA—The Innovation Icon
Part I. Perspectives on DARPA
An Institutional Analysis
The Defense Underpinning of the PC Revolution
DARPA and the Case for Embedded Network Governance
Part II. The role of DARPA program managers
APersonal Perspective
Part III. Applying the DARPA model in other situations
Applying the DARPA Model to Energy Innovation
A Modified DARPA Innovation Model
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has played a remarkable role in the creation new transformative technologies, revolutionizing defense with stealth drones and precision-guided munitions, and transforming civilian life with portable GPS receivers, voice-recognition so ware, self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, and, most famously, the ARPANET and its successor, the Internet.
Other parts of the U.S. Government and some foreign governments have tried to apply the ‘DARPA model’ to help develop valuable new technologies. But how and why has DARPA succeeded? Which features of its operation and environment contribute to this success? And what lessons does its experience offer for other U.S. agencies and other governments that want to develop and demonstrate their own ‘transformative technologies’?
This book is a remarkable collection of leading academic research on DARPA from a wide range of perspectives, combining to chart an important story from the Agency’s founding in the wake of Sputnik, to the current a empts to adapt it to use by other federal agencies. Informative and insightful, this guide is essential reading for political and policy leaders, as well as researchers and students interested in understanding the success of this agency and the lessons it offers to others.