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Published online 23 January 2008 | Nature 451, 390-393 (2008) | doi:10.1038/451390a
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Defence research: Still in the lead?
Half a century after its creation, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is considered a paragon of government innovation. But some question whether it is still relevant. Sharon Weinberger reports.
Last year's DARPATech conference could not have been held at a more fitting place than a Disneyland hotel in California. Run by the Pentagon's research arm — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — the August meeting was meant to tout the agency's unparalleled record of far-out technological innovation.
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