Aria. Doesn t have quite the same ring to it, does it?
Lindsay Clark Fri 19 Feb 2021 // 15:30 UTC Share
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Speaking to the UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Committee last autumn, Dr Peter Highnam, US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) deputy director, said: “Having national security as the mission frames everything. It is not wide open; there is always context and use cases.”
Darpa is the agency the UK government so painfully wants to mimic with its Advanced Research & Invention Agency, or Aria, launched today.
In the resulting committee report, published last week, MPs set out the yard-stick against which they might measure Aria’s success.