Draft:DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a military research and development agency for the United States. It was originally named ARPA, and was created in 1958 in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik 1. DARPA researches a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies, provided that they can be put to military use. DARPA has been partially responsible for the creation of GPS, weather satellites, and the Internet. Its reputation for ambitious government-backed research makes it a prime target for conspiracy theorists.

Conspiracies
DARPA was one of the agencies that originally funded HAARP, and it performed some of the last experiments there before the project ended.