Today in 1958, in response to the launch of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 four months earlier, the U.S. Department of Defense issued Directive 5105.15, establishing the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
The agency, later renamed DARPA, was created because “the political and defense communities recognized the need for a high-level defense organizat…
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