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Frontier Research Contractor Launchpad: First Cohort Results (opens the original)
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A close reading of the early history of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) — the ARIA-like agency in the US that funded the early internet and autonomous vehicles — yields a key lesson: exceptional projects were usually the result of exceptional contractors. World-changing ARPA successes like the ARPAnet and early autonomous vehicles were the result of a common shape of R&D org, one structured, incentivize
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