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Why is it called DARPA?
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DARPA was founded in 1958 as the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It was renamed DARPA in 1972. DARPA’s mission is to prevent technological surprise and create technological surprise. This is achieved by funding research that is often classified and that requires rapid prototyping and demonstration of new technologies. DARPA funds research in a wide variety of areas including artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous systems, and quantum computing.