If you ask people to free-associate defence technology and the Pentagon, chances are that the answer you'll get is DARPA – the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. That's because DARPA focuses on highly innovative technology, the stuff of science fiction. Here's DARPA's online pitch to prospective programme managers: 'We embrace high-risk, high-payoff ideas' that could 'provide disruptive change for the US military'.

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