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Podcast: Macroaggressions
Episode: #358: DARPA’s Dangerous Family Tree
Description: From its beginnings in 1958 as the Advanced Research Projects Agency to the eventual folding into the Department of Defense in 1972 under its current acronym, DARPA has always been on the cutting edge of technological advancements in the fields of aerospace, defense, computing, and intelligence gathering.
These days DARPA is best known for scary robot dogs and brain implants, but the United States government has big plans for expanding the concept of advanced research with “High-risk, High-reward” expectations into the health industry with the creation of ARPA-H in 2022 to take the medical industry where DARPA took the defense contractors.