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Re:Pentagon Requests $15B for Space Force by eindiran on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:20PM (#22293504)
Yeah, it's crazy to see how much has been funded by DARPA in particular:

https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/darpa-history-and-timeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA#Projects

Some of the greatest hits, at least from my perspective:

The ARPANET -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

The mother of all demos (GUIs, mouses, word processors, video conferences, windows, version control, etc) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

BSD OSes -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_Project

Tor/.onion routing -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing

Siri -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALO

Boston Dynamics robots -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(robot)

High productivity computing systems -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Productivity_Computing_Sy...

Autonomous vehicles research -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge

Software-based approaches to biology/cancer research -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_mechanism

The precursor to GPS -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_(satellite)

Shakey the Robot -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakey_the_robot

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Re:Pentagon Requests $15B for Space Force by kristianp on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:28PM (#22293573)
Don't forget the DARPA sponsored AI research, which supported the original lisp work I believe.
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