003: WELCOME TO DARPA

PTERODACTYL

On this episode of PTERODACTYL, we interviewed Jared B. Adams, the Chief Communications Officer for DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. If there is any scientific frontier, then DARPA is there. DARPA is an Agency of the United States Department of Defence, meaning that their mandate is to come up with inventions and discoveries that will assist the military.

DARPA can be found at www.DARPA.mil

As always, PTERODACTYL can be found at www.CentralEV.org/podcast

This podcast is a program of the Central Washington University Electric Vehicle Club, a college campus chapter of the Electric Auto Association.

timestamps:

00:00 ~ "Lorne Michaels" drops by the studio to give us a piece of his mind.

02:36 ~ Announcements

04:53 ~ What is DARPA?

08:45 ~ Game - "DARPA, or You-Wish-You-Were-DARPA!"

17:26 ~ Attaching guilt, and the nature of invention

18:59 ~ A day in the life at DARPA

22:26 ~ DARPA and Electric Vehicles

24:50 ~ DARPA's relationship to other institutions

28:50 ~ DARPA and the private sector

30:04 ~ DARPA and outer space

31:55 ~ Is your life affected by DARPA?

32:57 ~ DARPA's coolest things

35:47 ~ The Baker Electric, and the early days of EV

38:58 ~ The Supply Chain Problem

41:20 ~ Career Path Avenues

43:53 ~ DARPA and undergraduate studies

46:35 ~ We Pitch some ideas to DARPA!

49:22 ~ Does DARPA retrofit current tech?

51:01 ~ Tools can be used for both good and bad

55:53 ~ How conspiracy theories are created

58:43 ~ The private vehicles of the military

1:00:23 ~ Carrington Events and EMP recovery

1:03:09 ~ What do DARPA employees drive?

1:07:00 ~ Guy's conversions

1:07:53 ~ The Wildcat Racing Team

1:13:21 ~ Epilogue