I had DARPA funding for my Phd in the 90s. While I knew people getting funding for submarine detection and other similar military specific techs, I was funded

I had DARPA funding for my Phd in the 90s. While I knew people getting funding for submarine detection and other similar military specific techs, I was funded for pure networking research. They fund a lot of areas, often very much in the pure science (particularly computer science) end of the spectrum.