DARPA Home     DARPA RSS News Feeds The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)  is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD) . It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions. Click here for directory of DARPA Technical Staff Favorite places to visit within the DARPA site. Favorite DARPA Pages 1. DARPATech 2005 2. Solicitations 3. Director's Office 4. Hiring Program Managers 5. Grand Challenge 6. Directions to DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 website, click here . See www.grandchallenge.org for webcasts, videos and pictures. Videos and presentation (1.5 Mb .pdf file) are available from the Grand Challenge Pentagon Event, December 6.   Proceedings from the 24th DARPA Systems and Technology Symposium (DARPATech), held August 9-11, 2005.   New! DARPA contractors, click her