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Most of us know that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) brought us GPS, speech recognition, drones, nanotechnology, self-driving cars, ballistic missile defense and (of course) the Internet. What doesn’t get as much coverage is the thinking and strategy that enables a governmental entity to innovate at scale and lay a foundation for pretty much every technology we consider cool today. How does DARPA do it? <strong>It’s by asking beautiful questions, then wrapping an enabling strategy and operations around the steps towards answering the questions.</strong>