To: marktwain
DARPA has to be one of the best investments the U.S. Government ever made.
The claim used to be, that AIR AMERICA, the CIA run airline was the only US government agency to make a profit?
37 posted on
07/06/2019 7:44:52 PM PDT by
DUMBGRUNT
("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), does not make money off the projects it starts. It spends seed money to get them started. They are very useful to the military. Then the spinoffs happen. The Internet, minature GPS, and gallium arsenide computer chips have all had astonishing commercial success.
Any one of those innovations paid for the entire budget of DARPA many times over in increased production and efficiency.
38 posted on
07/07/2019 4:28:32 AM PDT by
marktwain
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