Dr. Andrew Huff

It used to be ARPA before they added the D before it.

So Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Yeah.

It's actually made most of the coolest technology that we have, or one of the companies or entities that's federally funded that has the internet.

So everything on the internet was developed by ARPA then, ARPANET.

And if you are a tech nerd like me and you start digging down the DNS queries of how you search for information, you dig down and you start pulling up the tables of information, eventually you get to something that says ARPANET in every communication that we do.

So they make the most sophisticated stuff in the world.

Yes.

Well, not necessarily just a research lab.

I'd call it more of it covers a program area or series of program areas where some of the research is done by private contractors, FFRDCs, basically anybody who can do the work.

And they fund high risk, high value scientific R&D on short timelines.

So you don't receive 10 years of funding.

The Department of Defense rightfully so is what capability will this give us within a year or two?

Yeah.

Three years.

They have a short horizon.

It's no nonsense.

And they want results.

And they achieve them.

Well, then I start, because my profile is increasing, and I'm starting to be actually followed by people out in the UP when I go to the grocery store.