The Pentagon's Brain
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No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history of the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents and declassified memos to paint a…
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DARPA has been the gold standard for research and early-stage development since its inception in 1958. DARPA's accomplishments have included the development of the internet, stealth technology, global position system (GPS), night vision, and unmanned drones, to name a few.
The book lays out an extraordinary record of accomplishment—DARPA has developed a “secret sauce” that few have been able to emulate. I first picked up the book when I was leading the Department of Homeland Security’s equivalent organization, the Homeland Security Advanced Research Project Agency (HSARPA).
From Daniel's list on understanding current tech war future of humanity.
In this book, Annie Jacobsen does the (almost) impossible by documenting the history of DARPA (full name: Defense Advanced Research Project Agency), which has been key to technological advancement within US national security operations since the height of the Cold War.
Jacobsen does this by drawing on documents from the US Official Record and interviews to evidence DARPA's role and history. As a result, she shows that, while it has not carried out research itself, it has acted as a crucial hub for cutting-edge research by academics, defense contractors, and other parts of the US government, with the insights of…
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