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The Crazy Government Research Projects You Might've Missed in 2019

• https://www.nextgov.com By Jack Corrigan

If you imagine the U.S. research community as a family party, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is your crazy uncle ranting at the end of the table and the government's other "ARPA" organizations are the in-laws who are buying into his theories. 

DARPA and its counterparts—the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity and the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy—are responsible for conducting some of the most innovative and bizarre projects in the government's $140 billion research portfolio. DARPA's past research has laid the groundwork for the internet, GPS and other technologies we take for granted today, and though the other organizations are relatively new, they're similarly charged with pushing today's tech to new heights. 

That means the futuristic-sounding projects the agencies are working on today could give us a sneak peek of where the tech industry is headed in the years ahead. 

And based on the organizations' 2019 research efforts, the future looks pretty wild.


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