[ noun ] the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense; responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since 9/11 <noun.group>
Although some HDTV advocates are calling for other forms of aid, such as antitrust relief for research consortia, the small firms simply would prefer more DARPA funds.
In the past, DARPA has funded several other research and production projects.
The Pentagon said Craig Fields, who headed DARPA for a year, was transferred rather than fired from the agency.
So DARPA is trying to keep the industry interested in developing large display panels by doling out research funds.
"We are gratified by the extremely strong response from industry," said Craig I. Fields, the deputy director for research of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.
Under the DARPA agreement, Gazelle will design and make gallium arsenide chips and subsystems operating at 1 gigabit per second and faster, which will allow computers talk to each other as quickly as they operate internally, the company said.
The DARPA funds are a pittance compared with what Japan and other prospective competitors are spending.