DARPA's Greatest Inventions -- Men's Journal
When you look at a cockroach, you may see an annoying pest, but the imagineers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) see something beautiful: a perfect six-legged prototype for a vehicle of the future. And DARPA draws inspiration from stranger things than bugs. Anything goes, as long as there's the possibility – even the remote possibility – that it will contribute to some aspect of U.S. military capability. And that covers a surprising amount of ground. According to Donald Ingber, a professor of bioengineering at Harvard Medical School, DARPA "is the only place that understands that true revolutionary leaps require that you not always know where you're going. Eight or nine projects fail, but then one changes the world."
Inside a plain red granite building in Arlington, Virginia, the high-tech, low-profile minds at DARPA aim to make the seemingly unimaginable routine. While the agency acts as a clearinghouse for hundreds of blue-sky projects in development and has a massive budget, DARPA tends to stay under the radar. Yet it's been in business for since 1958: The agency was one-half of Eisenhower's response to the Sputnik challenge. NASA was the other half. Both agencies were given the same urgent brief: Regain our technological lead and keep it.
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My Comment: This is just a small list .... the inventions that have come out from DARPA can fill binders at the patent office.
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