DARPA pioneered the internet — its model can revolutionize vital research

President Biden 's budget request to Congress features $7.5 billion dollars to launch two new Advanced Research Projects Agencies (ARPAs): an ARPA for health and an ARPA for climate. In recent weeks, others have called for ARPA-like models to advance economic competitiveness, agriculture and labor. New ARPAs can fundamentally change what our future looks like. But to succeed, we must get the ARPA model right.