America's secret technology weapon. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: December 26, 1988| Author: Cook, William J. | Copyright information

SCIENCE * A challenge to the industrial competitiveness of Japan from a far corner of the Pentagon

It has only 160 employes, and its headquarters is located in an aging highrise in Rosslyn, Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. But the little-known Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, always referred to as "DARPA," has had such a profound impact on the U.S. economy that some call it "America's MITI," after Japan's famed Ministry of International ...

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