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OFFICES

Although the DARPA organizational chart looks formal, the Agency is a fluid organization. Offices are created and disbanded as appropriate in order to keep DARPA forward-thinking, relevant and responsive to new opportunities.

Technology Offices

Adaptive Execution Office (AEO) - Conceive and execute novel technology and system developments that are adaptive both in end function and in the process by which they are developed. Improve the transition worthiness of DARPA programs across the enterprise.

Defense Sciences Office (DSO) - Bridge the gap from fundamental science to applications by identifying and pursuing the most promising ideas within the science and engineering research communities, and is committed to transform these ideas into new DoD capabilities.

Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) - Supports research, development, and prototyping that spans the information lifecycle: sense, process, understand, and apply.

Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) - Leading pioneering research in integrated Microsystems as "platforms-on-a-chip" to enable revolutionary performance and functionality for future DoD systems.

Strategic Technology Office (STO) - Focus on technologies that have a global theater-wide impact and that involve multiple Services.

Tactical Technology Office (TTO) - Engage in high-risk, high-payoff advanced technology development of military systems, emphasizing the "system" and "subsystem" approach to the development of aerospace systems.

Transformational Convergence Technology Office (TCTO) - Advance new crosscutting capabilities derived from a broad range of emerging technological and social trends, particularly in areas related to computing and computing-reliant subareas of the life sciences, social sciences, manufacturing, and commerce.

Staff Offices

In addition to the technical offices, DARPA has staff offices supporting overall agency operations:

DARPA Org Chart