ARPA-E Vision Explained by House Committee on Science and Technology
April 03, 2009 in Funding News
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology released a statement explaining the committee's vision for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) today.
The committee's statement explains:
"ARPA-E will apply the DARPA research model to energy technology development. DARPA at the Department of Defense created a culture of innovation and lead to breakthroughs like GPS, stealth technology, body armor, and the internet. ARPA-E will be a new agency within the Department of Energy (DOE) tasked with high-risk, high-reward energy technology development, especially research that is too cross-cutting or multi-disciplinary to fit into the current system. It will bring together the best and the brightest from all sectors—national labs, academia, the private sector, individual inventors—in a way that has never been done in energy research. It will give them the resources and the autonomy they need, and it will get bureaucracy [out] of their way."
$415M was included in the stimulus package to establish ARPA-E.
