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From Wired Top Stories:
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for someone to think up crazy ways to do impossible things. The official title is director of its Defense Sciences Office. But the projects are so difficult, so out there, that DSO has come to be known as "Darpa's Darpa."
Want to manage some of the wildest projects at the Pentagon's far-out research arm? Then Darpa has a job for you. The agency is looking for a new director for its Defense Sciences Office. That's the part of Darpa that handles everything from mind-controlled artificial limbs to zombie rodents to drones' micro-jets to materials that act more like living things. The projects are often so dificult, and so far out, DSO has come to be known as "Darpa's Darpa."
The cash isn't bad - up to $172,200 per year. Applicants "must have a degree in biological sciences, chemistry, engineering, physical sciences or mathematics," the agency says. And they must be U.S. citizens, too.
Darpa's hiring record has been the subject of a bit of controversy, lately. A recent Pentagon memo took away $32 million from the agency, in part because "several key program managers' positions are unfilled." Darpa chief Tony Tether then told DANGER ROOM that the Defense Department bigs had it all wrong. "We are always looking for people, [that] is true. [But] one of the main reasons that Darpa has done so much compared to other organizations is that we get the brightest folks but we don't keep them too long" -- four to five years, on average.
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