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DARPA Chief To Russia: ‘It’s Not That Easy’

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

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The head of the Pentagon’s agency for developing cutting edge ideas and turning them into real weapons technology cautioned yesterday that Russia’s endeavor to establish a similar organization won’t be easy. The Russian Duma, controlled by President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, voted overwhelmingly last summer to set up and fund a new agency modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), calling it the Future Research Fund (FPI). DARPA chief Arati Prabhakar predicted it will take quite a…

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