The "Father of Marvel" is Stan Lee, the father of the "Avengers", who is S.H.I.E.L.D. American movies are wild, but it's not uncommon to find archetypes of certain organizations in movies, and S.H.I.E.L.D. is no exception.
The Avengers
In the United States, there is a highly classified organization affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense outside of conventional military science and technology research and development institutions, which is sparsely staffed, less than 300 people, but its members are made up of elites from various disciplines and manage a budget of more than $3.2 billion. This mysterious organization responsible for the research and development of ultra-front-end technology or supporting leapfrog defense science and technology enterprises is the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, referred to as DARPA, and is commonly known as Dapa in China.
S.H.I.E.L.D
DARPA, short for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is part of the U.S. Department of Defense and is responsible for developing and supporting high-tech projects for military use. Although it is called the Advanced Research Projects Bureau, in fact, Advanced should be translated as a precursor here, because the purpose of the agency is to "maintain the technological leadership of the United States and prevent potential opponents from unexpected overtaking", and its mission is to open up new areas of defense scientific research, provide high-tech reserves for solving medium- and long-term national security problems, and study and analyze the potential for the application of new technologies and high-tech technologies with potential military value and risk. As it describes itself: "From its inception in 1958, DARPA's original mission was to prevent technological breakthroughs like the launch of 'Sputnik' (Soviet satellites), which marked the Soviet Union's defeat of the United States in space. This mission statement has also evolved with the times. DARPA's mission remains to prevent america from suffering technological breakthroughs while also creating technological breakthroughs against our enemies. ”
DARPA
Since its inception, the organization has demonstrated tremendous scientific and technological influence. Many major scientific and technological achievements such as the Internet, semiconductors, personal computer operating systems UNIX, lasers, and global positioning systems (GPS) can see the shadow of DARPA's participation, and the penetration ability is so strong that it can be described as pervasive. In recent years, it has promoted the development and funding of miniaturized airborne laser weapons, swarm drones, insight into the war zone, microsatellites and other research, but also achieved a lot of results, so how did a small institution of less than 300 people release such a huge military scientific and technological influence? We may be able to glimpse it in how it works.
DARPA Office Building
First, unique positioning. DarPA belongs to the U.S. Department of Defense, but independent of each service, and the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force are customer relations, it is not to meet the actual needs of the military, but to perceive the future potential needs of the military, DARPA locked in many high-risk, high-value, high-yield projects, always focus on the exploration of the future, although there will be cases of failure, but once successful, will be born a lot of leading ability to change the war situation and new combat effectiveness generation.
Fifth-generation stealth fighter
Second, the decision-making and organizational mechanisms with distinctive characteristics. DARPA has about 100 program officers, all of whom are "seconded" from academia or industry for 3 to 5 years, who have a strong position of authority and experience in the industry, and have great autonomy to identify and fund related technology projects in their fields. A project officer needs only convince two people to decide whether to fund a project: the director of his or her technical bureau and the director of DARPA. This bias towards high-rollercoaster project decision-making determines DARPA's unique R&D characteristics of high risk and high returns.
Carrier Battle Group
Third, select talents. DARPA seeks outstanding talents from industry sectors, institutions of higher learning, and government laboratories and research centers, with theoretical and experimental expertise in a variety of disciplines. The most important job of a DARPA director is to recruit talented project leaders and then use their creativity to form large teams around major advances. In particularly fruitful fields, DARPA has created a large number of project leaders who have come and gone, and sometimes this forward-looking exploration concept can even be considered "crazy". But DARPA's achievements prove beyond a doubt that everything, science and madness, are often just a line apart.
Spring knife
Fourth, the strong transformation ability of scientific and technological achievements. The transformation of scientific and technological achievements has always been a problem in the world, but Dapa is strongly supported by the US Department of Defense. The conversion rate of technological achievements has always been very high, and once there is resistance in the transformation process, they will use the authority of the Minister of Defense to strongly promote new technology products into the military procurement process, and after the Ministry of Defense evaluates them, it will be forced to promote their use in the army, or reformulate tactics to adapt to new technologies and equipment.
satellite
DARPA's success stems from a successful and flexible mechanism, and its contribution to technological innovation is obvious to all. On the road of the mainland's rapid development and vigorous promotion of scientific and technological innovation, the realization of a scientific and technological power, and the promotion of military scientific and technological reform, DARPA's organizational experience is very worthy of our thinking and reference, respecting the opponent is respecting ourselves, and we hope that our country will become more and more flexible on the road of scientific and technological rejuvenation, fully mobilize and exert subjective initiative, and achieve the goal of two hundred years at an early date!