Welcome to /c/DARPA - a place to aggregate the interesting and unusual research undertaken by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

While doing some personal research, I was surprised to discover how much information DARPA releases about the projects that they’re working on, via their website. I thought it could be interesting to put some of the strangest projects together here.

I want this community to function well as a tidy RSS feed, so posts should be direct links to DARPA research projects from darpa.mil, or reputable news and information sources. General discussion is welcome in the stickied post. Depending on community activity, I’ll make the sticky post weekly or monthly.

Posting is restricted right now, but will be opened soon, after I put together a handful of initial links.

Let me know your thoughts, and, cheers!

  • volubleOPMEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Thanks!

    Any interesting domains you can share?

    I think many of the posts here are going to end up pointing to wayback machine page snapshots - it seems like DARPA posted a lot more detailed information in the early 2000s on their BAAs and solicitations. For example, there is so much information on the objectives and ideas behind LifeLog, but DARPA memory holed it almost immediately after it was announced, so a one-month window of snapshots from the wayback machine is the only way to learn about it from a primary source.