A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA

Re:A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA by nl on Sunday June 06, 2021 @08:14PM (#27417588)

CSIRO is (generally speaking) basic research.

DARPA will fund that too, but almost always only as part of a larger applied research project. DARPA project deliver working systems.

DARPA projects are also always limited term, without renewals. That gives a deadline, which is different to most research agencies.

(ex-PM for a research agency that worked with *ARPA here. Most of the non-DARPA US *ARPA agencies aren't as effective as DARPA itself though).

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Re:A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA by pedalpete on Sunday June 06, 2021 @08:28PM (#27417671)

CSIRO does "basic research", but depending on what department you are in, project terms are limited and projects are focused on finding a way out of the building.

The projects I worked on were all on tight budgets and deadlines with the goal of finding a way to commercialize the research.

That being said, I'm not a researcher and my job was finding/developing a commercialization path for existing research.

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