To protect its bureaucracy, the Pentagon began designating offices as field agencies to immunize them from reductions. On March 23 of that year, ARPA officially became the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which meant that ARPA would hence be DARPA. On its own, the new name had no significance for the agency’s direction, but it was a symbolic defeat. Lukasik despised the name change, insisting that the acronym remain “ARPA,” which it did, until the end of his directorship. “This was not a minor point of civil disobedience,” Lukasik said. “I said freely that DARPA sounded like a dog
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