DARPA funds the research and development of technologies with the potential for transformational impact, central to delivering on the agency’s mission to create and prevent strategic surprise for national security. The agency’s Biological Technologies Office focuses on the natural world to derive revolutionary capabilities centered on:
- Foundational technologies that promote simulation and prediction of biological systems and outcomes, like simulation, foundational models, and data generation,
- Warfighter readiness, health, and recovery, such as medical countermeasures, diagnostics, health IT and medical devices, and
- Operational support of U.S. forces to enable their execution of missions across the spectrum, ranging from fibers for garments to distributed, point-of-need manufacturing.