[AustinDev]

I know a fair amount about this and will happily answer additional questions. There are two main ways to work for DARPA. Bid on contracts when they are opened up for public bid. The other way is to work at DARPA to do this you need an incredibly unique idea that solves a particular office director's mandate for their tenure then you apply as a program manager. Most program managers are academics with unique ideas to solve the needs of that particular office head. You can only work as a program manager for a certain amount of time, I believe two years, before you have to rotate out.

If you work as a contractor on a DARPA program, you generally get to keep all IP rights. I've used these programs to fund companies before.

[samstave]

Where find list of said *"needs of.... department head"*?

[tinco]

Well for one they publish them here: https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/opportunities