Fuse Program

DARPA Program managers have a tenure of four to five years

Organizations with structures worth learning from

Forecasting Counterfactuals in Uncontrolled Settings (FOCUS)

Forecasting Science & Technology (ForeST)

Dewey Murdick

John Hoffman

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

ACE Program

DARPA falls into many classic government organization traps

Lisa Porter 7 Feb 2022

Jason Matheny

Pedro Espina

Bio-templated Nanofabrication program

# 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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# What are IARPA Seedlings?
# What are IARPA Seedlings
Question for Program manager
[Seedling Information](https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/working-with-iarpa/seedling-information)
           



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