Director's Office
ATO DSO IPTO IXO
MTO SPO TTO J-UCAS
COMP CMO
HRD OMO
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DARPA Technical Offices
The Advanced Technology
Office (ATO) researches, demonstrates, and
develops high payoff projects in maritime, communications, special
operations, command and control, and information assurance and survivability
mission areas. These projects support military operations throughout the
spectrum of conflict. ATO adapts advanced technologies into military systems
and also exploits emerging technologies for future programs. The ultimate
goal is superior cost-effective systems the military can use to respond to
new and emerging threats.
The mission of the Defense Sciences Office is to vigorously pursue the most promising technologies within a broad spectrum of the science and engineering research communities and to develop those technologies into important, radically new military capabilities.
The Information
Processing Technology Office
focuses on inventing the networking, computing, and software technologies vital to
ensuring DOD military superiority.
The Information Exploitation Office develops
sensor and information system technology and systems with application to
battle space awareness, targeting, command and control, and the supporting
infrastructure required to address land-based threats in a dynamic,
closed-loop process. IXO leverages ongoing DARPA efforts in sensors, sensor
exploitation, information management, and command and control, and addresses
systemic challenges associated with performing surface target interdiction
in environments that require very high combat identification confidence and
an associated low likelihood for inadvertent collateral damage.
The Microsystems
Technology Office
mission focuses on the heterogeneous microchip-scale integration of electronics,
photonics, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Their high risk/high payoff
technology is aimed at solving the national level problems of protection from biological,
chemical and information attack and to provide operational dominance for mobile
distributed command and control, combined manned/unmanned warfare, and dynamic, adaptive
military planning and execution.
The Special Projects Office
focuses on developing systems solutions, along with
the required enabling technologies, to counter current and emerging threats.
In the area of current challenges, SPO is focused on affordable, precision
kill of movers, of emitters, and of concealed (including underground)
targets. In the area of emerging threats, SPO focuses on active defenses
against biological weapons, against proliferated, low-cost/low-technology
air vehicles and missiles, and against GPS jamming. Supporting technologies
include advanced sensors and radars, signal processing, and navigation and
guidance systems.
The Tactical Technology Office
engages in high-risk, high-payoff advanced military research, emphasizing the
"system" and "subsystem" approach to the development of aeronautic,
space, and land systems as well as embedded processors and control systems.
The Joint Unmanned Combat Air
Systems (J-UCAS) Office is the DARPA activity charged with leading
the DoD effort to develop and demonstrate the Joint Unmanned Combat Air
Systems. The J-UCAS program is a joint DARPA/Air Force/Navy effort to
demonstrate the technical feasibility, military utility and operational
value for a networked system of high performance, weaponized unmanned air
vehicles to effectively and affordably prosecute 21st century combat
missions, including Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD), surveillance,
and precision strike within the emerging global command and control
architecture.
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DARPA Support Offices
The Office of the Comptroller is the nucleus of "corporate" fiscal
activities and prepares and submits the consolidated annual Agency budget, and also
manages the planning, programming, and budgeting system process. COMP develops and
implements the proper procedures and controls for program execution, maintains adequate
program accountability documentation, provides for liaison with the General Accounting
Office and the DoD Inspector General on audit activities, and serves as the Congressional
focal point for the Agency. COMP also maintains a management information system to support
DARPA requirements for accurate and timely fiscal, contractual, and programmatic
information services.
The Contracts
Management
Office plans, negotiates, and awards contracts, grants, and agreements for
select new-start technology projects and for consortium and other cooperative projects
where innovative contractual arrangements may be desired. CMO also administers the
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
program.
The Human Resources Directorate provides civilian and military personnel
management functions, including recruitment, hiring, billet and manpower allocation,
civilian pay and benefits administration, and all personnel management actions.
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The Office of Management Operations provides administrative support to the
Director, DARPA, Technical Office Directors, Program Managers, and the DARPA staff. OMO
comprises four major functional directorates: Facilities and Administration; Human Resources; Information Resources; and Security
and Intelligence. The responsibilities of each of these directorates are described below.
Facilities & Administration plans, develops, and
coordinates the administrative service functions of the Agency. This office supervises
records management, technical information programs, the library, travel services,
facilities management, telecommunications services, correspondence, public information
services, video teleconferencing services, and supply functions; and serves as the liaison
between the technical offices and the DARPA Agents.
The Information Resources Directorate is responsible for
management of DARPA information services which include finance,
communications, records management, web site administration, and
commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) prototyping and research.
The Security and Intelligence Directorate
plans, executes, and directs the information, personnel, industrial and
physical security programs at DARPA and at specified contractor sites.
This includes declassification management activities, the security
classification management program, and the Communications Security
Program (COMSEC). S&ID also formulates and implements security
policy and procedures at DARPA and represents DARPA on security matters
with external organizations.
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Last Updated: September 10, 2004
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