English subtitles for clip: File:Section 1.1 Small Business Introduction (An Introduction To DARPA) (DARPA).ogv

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Welcome to “Doing Business with DARPA – A Small Business Primer”.

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We will be showing you opportunities available for small businesses like yours to obtain funding

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and other kinds of support for innovative research and development projects in areas of national need,

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and what assistance DARPA offers to help you transition your technologies and solutions to the military services,

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other federal agencies, and the commercial marketplace.

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Small businesses have always participated and have been big players in the expansion of ideas that have always kept us on the top.

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And they’re really the ones that come up with the ideas that save lives and advance our technological superiority in this global world.

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DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is the central research and development organization for the U.S. Department of Defense.

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The agency’s mission is to maintain the superiority of the U.S. military and prevent technological surprise from harming our national security.

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DARPA is the premier DoD research and development organization. So, even though we don’t have any labs or any facilities,

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we are the central research hub and then we transition and transfer technologies to the other military components.

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DARPA funds researchers in industry, universities, government laboratories, and elsewhere, to conduct high-risk,

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high-reward research and development projects, with both near and far term applications.

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DARPA emphasizes innovation and radical disruptive technology. So we use a term called DARPA HARD which is…it could be anything from

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No one’s ever done it before or everyone has done it and they failed or there is a technology that currently exists but we need to push the state-of-the-art.

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We need to push that envelope and advance that technology even further so that our warfighters have a technological advantage on the battlefield.

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DARPA’s pioneering work has lead to some of the most technologically advanced systems and applications of the century.

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But there are always more challenges, and your idea may be the next revolutionary solution.

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There’s just no other place in the world where you can come to an organization and pitch your idea and somebody can come back and say,“This is worth doing”.

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And the amount of effort that’s placed in it is pretty outstanding. We are known for taking a very small idea and going miles and miles with it.

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When you consider some of the smaller programs that made it into the high end areas that we’re talking about,

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it’s fascinating to see and outstanding to think about because no other place in the world is willing to take that risk.