Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Leadership & Staff

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Peter Highnam DARPA, etc.

• Deputy Director

Kaigham J Gabriel Deputy Director DARPA

• Deputy Director

Herbert Lee Buchanan Physicist; Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisitions

• Deputy Director (Mar '96→Sep '98) [+1]

• Position ('85→?)

Robert E Kahn Along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP)

• Position (past)

John Launchbury

• Director Information Innovation Office (past)

Pamela Melroy Biden Nominee for Deputy Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; DARPA

• Deputy Director, Tactical Technology Office (past)

Steven Walker DARPA

• 21st director (Jan '17→Jan 10 '20)

Justin Sanchez Former DARPA Biological Technologist

• Former Biological Technologist ('13→?)*

Arati Prabhakar Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

• 20th Director (?→Jan '17)

Tristan McClure-Begley Program Manager, DARPA, Neuroplasticity Training

• Program Manager ('17→?)*

Donations

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Profusa Company Producing Tissue-Integrated Sensors

• Grant · 7,500,000 USD (Jul 12 '16)

Dive Technologies Inc A Boston, MA-based subsea robotics designer and manufacturer, acquired by Anduril Industries, Inc

• Grant EEI (Jan 20 '21)

Graphika Labs

• Donation/Grant

Smart Dust DARPA Funded Wireless Sensing

• Funded ('97)

Tor Project Volunteer Run Encrypted Online Communication System

• Donation/Grant

Imperial Network for Vaccines Research Imperial College London

• Donor

Bill Banyai Founder and COO @ Twist Bioscience

• Grant Recipient*

Profusa Biosensor Oxygen Monitoring DARPA Funded for COVID ID Detection

• Funder ('16)

Medicago Plant-based vaccine producer

• Blue Angel funding ('10)

Embedded, Everywhere: A Research Agenda for Networked Systems of Embedded Computers (2001) IoT Whitepaper 2001

• Funder ('01)

Child Organizations

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Defense Sciences Office One of six technical offices that manage DARPA’s research portfolio

• Office

Tactical Technology Office One of six technical offices that manage DARPA’s research portfolio

• office

Department of Defense Research & Engineering Enterprise

• subordinate unit

DARPA Narrative Networks Program Examining Psychological Manipulation

• Child Org*

Biological Technologies Office DARPA Program

• Child Org*

DARPA Neural Dust Neural Electro Magnetic Modulation

• Child Org ('16→?)*

DARPA Subterranean Challenge Caves, Tunnels, Urban

• Child Org ('20→?)*

Pandemic Prevention Platform

• Child Org

ElectRx DARPA Program of Electrically Engineered Neural Sensors, Remote Activation

• Child Org ('14→?)*

Full Spectrum Learning DARPA RFI For Online Education & Measuring Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Traits

• Child Org ('12→?)*

Parents

Office of the Secretary of Defense

• Parent Org

United States Department of Defense

• ultimate parent ('58→?)*

Members

Alexander Singer Director and Producer, Known for Star Trek

• Study Group Participant*

Memberships

Lieber Research Group Nano-Tech Research and Development

• Sponsor

BRAIN Initiative NIH Neuroscience Effort

• Partner ('13→?)*

Services & Transactions

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Raytheon Company Defense contractor; merged with UTC. Surviving company exists as a subsidiary of the renamed UTC, company, Raytheon Technologies

• Contractor · 38,917,699 USD ('05→'07)

Northrop Grumman Corporation

• Contractor · 35,287,296 USD ('04→'07)

Raytheon Technologies Corporation The world's second-largest aerospace-and-defense company

• Contractor · 28,850,491 USD ('03→'07)

Rockwell Automation, Inc. Provides industrial automation power, control, and information systems. Revenues are $7 billion.

• Contractor · 12,961,067 USD ('03→'06)

Lockheed Martin Corporation Defense, aeronautics, and systems engineering company

• Contractor · 11,221,902 USD ('04→'07)

Xerox Provide services that help assist with document and print related processes

• Contractor · 2,340,559 USD ('03→'06)

DRS Technologies Manufactures components, parts, systems for military and commercial aircraft

• Contractor · 1,570,436 USD ('05→'06)

The Boeing Company Advanced technology manufacturer and systems developer

• Contractor · 1,516,660 USD ('07)

Goodrich Corporation Supplier of products and services to the aerospace industry

• Contractor · 1,256,500 USD ('07)

Ball Corporation

• Contractor · 1,217,289 USD ('05→'06)

Lobbied By

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Motorola Solutions, Inc. Mission-critical communications products and services to enterprises and governments.

• Direct Lobbying ('08)

Pacquing Consulting Inc

• Lobbying (for client) ('05→'08)

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

• Direct Lobbying ('07→'08)

NCR Corporation Information Technology for Transaction Processing & Building Consumer Relationsh

• Direct Lobbying ('03→'04)

Raytheon Company Defense contractor; merged with UTC. Surviving company exists as a subsidiary of the renamed UTC, company, Raytheon Technologies

• Direct Lobbying ('99→'08)

Delphi Automotive LLP Manufactures and markets vehicle components.

• Direct Lobbying ('08)

General Dynamics Corporation Manufactures components, parts, systems for military and commercial aircraft

• Direct Lobbying ('08)

Grant Miller

• Lobbying (for client) ('04)

Northrop Grumman Corporation

• Direct Lobbying ('08)

Harris Wiltshire & Grannis LLP

• Lobbying (for client) ('02)

Miscellaneous Relationships

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Linux Foundation Open Source Technology

• Partner*

Kris Pister / Kristofer Pister Professor of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley

• Collaborator ('97→?)*

Dominic Cummings Advisor to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson

• Wants Civilian ARPA UK*

Acuitus Coding Training Company Bay Area

• Partner*

Keith Uncapher (Deceased) Computer Engineer, RAND and the Information Sciences Institute at USC

• Consulted With ('74→?)*

High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) US Air Force Ionospheric Research Center

• Project*

6G Enable AI To AI Computing

• Developing ('19→?)*

Defence Science Institute Victoria

• Affiliation

Moderna, Inc. Cambridge, MA Based Biotech start-up working with the NIH to develop a COVID-19 vaccine

• Partner

MIT Architecture and Machine Group (MAMG) Nicholas Negroponte's Research Lab / ARPA Contracts 1960s

• Funded by ('67→'85)*