Inside DARPAs DARPA
The Pentagon\u2019s research wing, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was created when Russia launched Sputnik and the U.S. had no response. And within DARPA, the Defense Sciences Office tackles big, forward-looking technology issues so the country is never caught off guard by another \u201ctechnology surprise.\u201d Nextgov\u2019s Jack Corrigan chats with DSO Director Valerie Browning to discuss the implications of machines that can think for themselves, when we should expect our first personal quantum computer and why more money doesn\u2019t always mean more results when it comes to government research.