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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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- initialism US, military Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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- noun the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense; responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since 9/11
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Examples
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And while DARPA is "open to possible restrictions on the accessibility of collected data" in recognition of "the sensitivity of data collected from … live systems," they declare, "the fewer and milder restrictions on data access, the better."
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Some company or companies out there will have a feast on the $35 million DARPA is doling out for this project, that's for sure — but it's not money well spent.
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Stanford has done well in DARPA Grand Challenge competitions aimed at developing autonomous vehicles.
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DARPA is holding a competition to find ten large weather balloons.
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DARPA is filling a void in the technology development path.
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Stanford has done well in DARPA Grand Challenge competitions aimed at developing autonomous vehicles.
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Saving the planet the American way: DARPA is beginning to research geoengineering.
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DARPA is holding a competition to find ten large weather balloons.
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DARPA is continuing to harness natural animal motor skills in combination with artificial control systems, but is now looking into using smaller test subjects.
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DARPA is funding research into nanomechanical chips that are hoped to be more rugged than traditional silicon based chips.
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