Getting DARPA’s scientific and technological achievements into the hands of the warfighters and peacekeepers who will use them is an exceptional challenge, but a fundamental part of the Agency’s mission and the program manager’s role.

The transition challenge is exacerbated for DARPA because its focus is on high-risk, revolutionary technologies and systems, which may have no clear home in a Service, are Joint, or threaten to displace current equipment or doctrine. Such factors tend to create resistance, or at least barriers to the use and adoption of a radical new technology.

Learn about what happens to a DARPA program when it is ready to move beyond the "far side" of research and development by following the links to the right.