Laboratories and Research

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DARPA and DoD Labs

• Testimony by GEN Paul J. Kern, USA (ret.) before the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, 7 Jul 2005 (local copy)
  • It is no accident that DARPA, ONR, AFOSR have co-located themselves within easy walking distance of the National Science Foundation in Northern Virginia, with the ARO having a liaison office there as well.

• National Science Board (NSB)
  • "Governing board of the National Science Foundation and policy advisors to the President and Congress"
• National Science Foundation (NSF)

• Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI), DoE

• Defense Science Board (DSB)
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) "was established in 1958 to prevent strategic surprise from negatively impacting U.S. national security and create strategic surprise for U.S. adversaries by maintaining the technological superiority of the U.S. military."

• Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) "invests in high-risk/high-payoff research programs that have the potential to provide our nation with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries."

• Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Army Research Office (ARO)
• Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI)

• Office of Naval Research (ONR)
• Navy Research Laboratory (NRL)

• Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
• Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

• Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) "advances high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment. ARPA-E awardees are unique because they are developing entirely new ways to generate, store, and use energy."

• Science.gov
  • "Science.gov searches over 45 databases and over 2000 selected websites from 14 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results."
• Science and Technology at USA.gov