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=== Former offices === The Adaptive Execution Office (AEO) was created in 2009 by the DARPA Director, Regina Dugan. The office's four project areas included technology transition, assessment, rapid productivity and adaptive systems. AEO provided the agency with robust connections to the soldier community and assisted the agency with the planning and execution of technology demonstrations and field trials to promote adoption by soldiers, accelerating the transition of new technologies into DoD capabilities. Information Awareness Office: 2002–2003 The Advanced Technology Office (ATO) researched, demonstrated, and developed high payoff projects in maritime communications, special operations, command and control, information assurance and survivability mission areas. The Special Projects Office (SPO) researched, developed, demonstrated, and transitioned technologies focused on addressing present and emerging national challenges. SPO investments ranged from the development of enabling technologies to the demonstration of large prototype systems. SPO developed technologies to counter the emerging threat of underground facilities used for purposes ranging from command-and-control, to weapons storage and staging, to the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction. SPO developed significantly more cost-effective ways to counter proliferated, inexpensive cruise missiles, UAVs, other platforms used for weapon delivery, jamming, and surveillance. SPO invested in novel space technologies across the spectrum of space control applications including rapid access, space situational awareness, counterspace, and persistent tactical grade sensing approaches including extremely large space apertures and structures. The Office of Special Development (OSD) in the 1960s developed a real-time remote sensing, monitoring, and predictive activity system on trails used by insurgents in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. This was done from an office in Bangkok, Thailand, that was ostensibly established to catalog and support the Thai fishing fleet, of which two volumes were published. This is a personal recollection without a published citation. A report on the ARPA group under which OSD operated is found here. A 1991 reorganization created several offices which existed throughout the early 1990s:
The Electronic Systems Technology Office combined areas of the Defense Sciences Office and the Defense Manufacturing Office. The new office focused on the boundary between general-purpose computers and the physical world, such as sensors, displays, and the first few layers of specialized signal-processing that couple these modules to standard computer interfaces. The Software and Intelligent Systems Technology Office and the Computing Systems office had the responsibility associated with the Presidential High-Performance Computing Initiative. The Software office was also responsible for "software systems technology, machine intelligence and software engineering." The Land Systems Office was created to develop advanced land vehicle and anti-armor systems, once the domain of the Tactical Technology Office. The Undersea Warfare Office combined areas of the Advanced Vehicle Systems and Tactical Technology offices to develop and demonstrate submarine stealth, counter-stealth and automation. A 2010 reorganization merged two offices:
The Transformational Convergence Technology Office (TCTO) and the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) were combined in 2010 to form the Information Innovation Office (I2O). TCTO's mission was to develop new crosscutting capabilities from a broad range of emerging technological and social trends, particularly in areas related to computing and computing-reliant subareas of the life sciences, social sciences, manufacturing, and commerce. IPTO focused on inventing the sensing, networking, computing, and software technologies vital to ensuring DoD military superiority.
=== Directors ===
Directors of DARPA have included:
== Projects == A list of DARPA's active and archived projects is available on the agency's website. Because of the agency's fast pace, programs constantly start and stop based on the needs of the U.S. government. Structured information about some of the DARPA's contracts and projects is publicly available.
=== Active projects ===