Planning Of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Optics Programs

Joe A. Jenney

doi:10.1117/12.965594

28 August 1979 Planning Of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Optics Programs

Joe A. Jenney

Proceedings Volume 0188, Management of Optics Programs; (1979) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965594
Event: 1979 Huntsville Technical Symposium, 1979, Huntsville, United States

Abstract

In this paper I will describe the way the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans technology programs. The procedures I will describe apply to other technology areas besides Optics and I won't be very specific about the Optics Programs except to define the scope of our efforts in Optics. The basic thing I want to do is provide some feeling for how we make decisions and why we do things that may appear strange from outside the Government. To do that I am going to talk about the planning of the DARPA Optics Programs. I use the word planning rather than management because, in the particular role I have, I spend much of my time involved with the planning function, whereas the management function is shared by several people in DARPA. The DARPA managers like myself do some management and the individual Division Chiefs and Program Managers do more. However, a great deal of the management is reflected down to the Service agents that do the day-to-day technical and fiscal management of the programs.

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Joe A. Jenney "Planning Of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Optics Programs", Proc. SPIE 0188, Management of Optics Programs, (28 August 1979); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965594

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