Fuse Program

Organizations with structures worth learning from

DARPA Program managers have a tenure of four to five years

Forecasting Counterfactuals in Uncontrolled Settings (FOCUS)

Forecasting Science & Technology (ForeST)

Seth Goldstein

A private DARPA riff both can and must do multiple experiments at once

ACE Program

DARPA falls into many classic government organization traps

Jason Matheny

# IARPA
Started in 2006
Reports into the Office of the Director of National intelligence
Structure explicitly based on [[DARPA does multiple levels of top-down problem generation and bottom-up solution generation]]
### IARPA Program Managers
Explcit Role
* identifying goals and objectives
* developing rigorous test and evaluation criteria
* specifying short- and long-term milestones to gauge the health of the program
* managing all technical, procurement, and financial aspects of the program
Serve for 3-5 Years
IARPA issues both RFIs [Example RFI](https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/working-with-iarpa/requests-for-information/low-cost-mirrors-for-interferometers) and Solicitations for Research
IARPA issues prize challenges [Prize Challenges](https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/working-with-iarpa/prize-challenges) - looks like purse is $50,000
Iarpa seems to have its shit together way more than DARPA
[[What are the incentives to fill out RFIs?]]
[[How can I get access to previous RFIs?]]
## People
As of Jan 2020:
Director is [[Catherine Marsh]]
Deputy Director for Research is [[Catherine Cotell]]
Deputy Director for Operations is [[Cheri Benedict]]
Chief of Technology Transition is [[Marianne Kramer]]
Hee hee they have a program called [“Amon Hen”](https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/amon-hen)
They are all about the LoTR references:  [SILMARILS](https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/silmarils) 
[MORGOTH’S CROWN Challenge](https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/working-with-iarpa/prize-challenges/966-morgoth-s-crown-challenge-4)
Every program page has a Program information identifier 
## Questions
[[What are IARPA Seedlings?]]
## References
[About IARPA](https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/about-iarpa)
           

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Prime Coalition

Build a map of how innovation organizations are structured now and in the past

Build a map of how innovations are funded now and in the past

ICT Distillation

Transition from exterior of the maze to the layout and why of the ARPA Model

An Institute for Creative Technology - Riffing on ARPA

ICT Outline

# Organizations with structures worth learning from
## Standard questions 

### Research Orgs
* [[SRI International]]
* [[Willow Garage]]
* [[Otherlab]]
* [[DeepMind]]
	* How did they get started 
* [[OpenAI]]
* [[Intellectual Ventures]]
* [[Xerox PARC]]
* [[Google X]]
* [[Bell Labs]]
* [[Lockheed Skunkworks]]
* [[D.E. Shaw Research]]
* [[Creavis]]
* [[Dynamicland]]
* [[Allen AI Institute]]
* [[Ink and Switch]]
* [[Microsoft Research]]
* [[Santa Fe Institute]]
* [[YC Research]] 
	* Why did they shut down?
* [[Media Lab]]
* [[MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology]]
* [[Flatiron Institute]]
* [[Actuate]]
* [[Activate]]/[[Cyclotron Road]]
* [[Rad Lab]]

### Funding Orgs
* [[DARPA and corporate R&D filled overlapping but different niches]]
* [[ARPA-E]]
* [[IARPA]]
* [[X-Prize]]
* [[Research Bridge Partners]]
* [[Gates Foundation]]
* [[Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)]]
* [[BP Venture Research]]
* [[Prime Coalition]]

### Startup Studios
* [[3rd Rock Ventures]]
* [[Flagship Pioneering]]
* [[Idealab]]
* [[Deep Science Ventures]]
* [[Science (Startup Studio]]
* [[Pioneer Square Labs]]
* [[Singularity University]]
* [[Entrepreneur First]]
* [[YCombinator]]
* [[SRI Ventures]]
* [[TandemLaunch]]
* [[Elevate Bio]]
* [[Weiss Institute]]?

### Whitespace Research
* [[Lux Research]]
* [[JASON group]]
* [[Polyplexus]]

### Pioneers of new models
* [[ARDC]]
* [[Sequoia]]
* [[Venrock]]

### Random
- [[Research Seminars dot Org]]

### A Long Tail of Software Studios
- [[OIO Studio]]
- [[Other Internet]]


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