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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, sponsors a lot of technology through grants to universities and private labs, with projects running the gamut from robots to electroencephalography caps, to software and new programming languages. Today, DARPA has responded to requests from the research and development community by publishing the DARPA Open Catalog, a website that aggregates source code and other data for all public DARPA-funded projects. Making our open source catalog available increases the number of experts who can help quickly develop relevant software for the government, Chris White, the DARPA program manager behind the effort, said in a statement. DARPA is primarily a division of the defense department, tasked with creating technological surprise for enemies and preventing them from surprising us.