Technical Offices
Our six technical offices put DARPA’s mission into action. Their leaders and program managers plan and execute a constantly evolving portfolio of research programs, challenges, and transition activities.
Support Offices
These offices provide vital support with a dedicated team of management, science and technology, and administrative professionals.
Adaptive Capabilities
The Adaptive Capabilities Office (ACO) focuses on architectural solutions to emerging challenges of modern warfare. The team vets new architectures and advances doctrine, concepts of operations, and technologies. | Learn more
Careers
Our Strategic Resources team leads recruiting and employee engagement. We are always seeking outstanding individuals with the experience and drive to change the world.
Commercial Strategy
Our Commercial Strategy Office taps top tier commercial and industry talent for mentorship, tech-economic and market mapping, with catalytic funding to recruit and embed entrepreneurial experts into DARPA research teams. Through tailored entrepreneurial expertise, DARPA-funded scientists and researchers can bring to market their innovations for commercial and defense uses – critical to maximizing taxpayer-funded R&D investments and providing an effective counter to aggressive foreign investors. | Learn more
Communications and Public Affairs
Our Public Affairs team is the sole point of contact for media inquiries about the agency, our programs, and our personnel. They lead all external communications and outreach, ensuring that publicly released information complies with Department of Defense and DARPA policy. | Learn more
Contracts Management
The Contracts Management team administers contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and other transactions on behalf of DARPA. | Learn more
General Counsel
DARPA Office of General Counsel (OGC) enables DARPA to meet its singular and enduring mission by providing timely, responsive, and accurate legal advice, effective advocacy, and innovative legal solutions to unique challenges. OGC provides advice across multiple practice areas including litigation, acquisition, fiscal, ethics, intellectual property, environmental, personnel, security, and intelligence law matters. | Contact General Counsel
International Cooperation
The DARPA International Cooperation function is the agency’s lead for government-to-government research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) collaboration. DARPA is able to work with international government organizations pursuant to active governing Department-level memoranda for RDT&E and by leveraging an existing DARPA program and resourced investments from a partner/allied nation.
DARPA seeks compelling contributions from partners and allies for collaborative work, ultimately benefiting both nations national security. Beyond government-to-government engagement, DARPA is able to fund global industry and academia as a performer on our various programs. For information for interested performers, DARPAConnect offers insights tailored to the global research community on how to work with DARPA.
Legislative Affairs
Our Legislative Affairs team is the primary point of contact for inquiries from Members of Congress and their staff. With backgrounds in defense policy and governmental affairs, this office coordinates budgetary and programmatic briefings as well as congressional testimony. | Contact Legislative Affairs
Small Business Programs
The Small Business Programs team engages small businesses in the quest for breakthrough technologies for national security. | Learn more and search Opportunities
