So did the Defense Department's Advanced Research Project Agency, which gave us military superiority over the Soviet Union and produced the Internet.

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NASA's work in robotic exoskeleton systems complements work done by other government agencies, such as the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation Program.

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The funding is coming from Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy ( ARPA-E), which the energy department launched in 2009 and modeled after a Department of Defense program that supports early-stage technology research.

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Terrafugia is subcontracting with AAI Corp. as part of the project launched by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) an effort that is both ambitious and oddly less complicated in some ways compared with civilian flying car concepts.

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The project is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the advanced research wing of the United States Department of Defense.

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