Statement by Larry Lynn.

Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency .

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Before the Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology United States Senate.

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March 12, 1998 .

Mr. Chairman, Members of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology.

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i am very honored to have been invited here today to explain the Agency's strategies and programs, to discuss our FY 1999 plans,

and to brief you on some of our recent accomplishments.

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INTRODUCTION

the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was chartered in 1958 as the central research and development organization of

the Department of Defense.

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Its responsibility at that time, and today, 40 years later, remains the same:

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to maintain U.S. technological superiority over potential adversaries .

DARPA has been responsible for technological innovations that have revolutionized the military and changed the lives of the average

American.

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the most obvious example is our development of packet-switching technology, the technology on which the Internet and World Wide

Web is based.

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the military, as well as the civilian world, has been transformed by the ability to so easily and quickly share information and data.

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Some of the most important military innovations of the last 25 years resulted from DARPA's investments in early science and

technology demonstrations.

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the concept of an airborne, target acquisition, weapon delivery radar was first initiated as a joint DARPA/ Air Force program called

Pave Mover.

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Pave Mover incorporated moving target indication radar and synthetic aperture radar.

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This program provided the basis for today's Joint STARS, a system that has proven so important to commanders that it was

deployed in support of Operation Desert Storm while still in development.

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Subsequently, Joint STARS was used again to give NATO Peace Implementation Force commanders insight into the activities of the

warring parties in Bosnia

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