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FWIW lots of DARPA stuff becomes commercial/consumer grade. Exhibit A is probably the entire Internet but close behind would be high bypass turbofan engines, Li
by ChuckMcM 6y ago
FWIW lots of DARPA stuff becomes commercial/consumer grade. Exhibit A is probably the entire Internet but close behind would be high bypass turbofan engines, LiDAR systems, laser range finders, "space" blankets, etc. There is a long line of these things.
- drjasonharrison 6y agoGPS
- hobby-coder-guy 6y ago“Close behind” Not really
- kirse 6y agoExhibit A-1 would be Siri on every Apple phone, originally a DARPA AI project.
- Tor3 6y agoSiri I never touch, internet I use all the time. The latter came way earlier too. So no.
- mattkrause 6y agoIt's intentional too. Many programs start with basic research, but also have specific milestones related to commercialization. For example, a biomedical program might have specific timelines for filing patents, meeting with the FDA for Investigational New Drug/Device Exemptions and thence clinical trials. This is rather different from the NIH and NSF, which tend to want smaller, self-contained projects from individual labs rather than a consortium that'll take a single idea from end-to-end.