Organizations

DARPA

1958

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - the Pentagon's frontier R&D agency; a career waypoint for several special-programs directors.

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Connections (4)

confirmedInstitute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

IDA provided technical analysis for ARPA and administered the JASON group

Source: Institute for Defense Analyses / JASON history

confirmedThomas J. Masiello

led the Adaptive Capabilities Office at DARPA

Source: af.mil biographies; post-service company/board listings (archive.org)

confirmedHerbert York

ARPA's first chief scientist (1958)

Source: Wikipedia: Herbert York; DARPA history

confirmedStanford Research Institute

major ARPA/DARPA research contractor; the ARPANET's second node (1969) and home to Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center

Source: ARPANET / SRI history; Doug Engelbart Institute

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