9/28/23 | 2nd DARPA & Henry Street *SEARCH*
DARPA searches a 2nd time and we get a US State Department connection with Henry Street Settlement searching me..
Jeremy Reiss, Executive Vice President
Partnerships and Innovation
A Henry Street team member for more than a decade, Jeremy drives program innovation and start-up, institutional fundraising, government relations and advocacy, and agency partnerships. Throughout his 25+ year career, he has worked as a community organizer, program evaluator, legislative and policy director, labor and climate advocate, public opinion pollster, and program practitioner.
Jeremy served on the Urban Policy and Labor/Employment Advisory Committees for President Obama’s 2008 election campaign.
A graduate of Wesleyan University, he also has an MSc in social policy and planning from the London School of Economics. Jeremy serves on the board of the Lester Fund and the Consortium for Worker Education.
He is serving a three-year term as a Fulbright Specialist with the U.S. Department of State
and is a member of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation’s Sterling Network. Jeremy chairs Henry Street’s Health & Wellness and Disability Inclusion Committees. He is a competitive marathon runner and pace team leader who resides in Brooklyn with his husband of 20 years and their two rescue dogs.
https://www.henrystreet.org/about/staff-leadership/
DARPA-
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.[3][4]
Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957. By collaborating with academia, industry, and government partners, DARPA formulates and executes research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, often beyond immediate U.S. military requirements.[5]
The Economist has called DARPA the agency "that shaped the modern world," and said that "Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine sits alongside weather satellites, GPS, drones, stealth technology, voice interfaces, the personal computer and the internet on the list of innovations for which DARPA can claim at least partial credit."[6]
Its track record of success has inspired governments around the world to launch similar research and development agencies.[6]
DARPA is independent of other military research and development and reports directly to senior Department of Defense management.
DARPA comprises approximately 220 government employees in six technical offices, including nearly 100 program managers, who together oversee about 250 research and development programs.[7]
The name of the organization first changed from its founding name, ARPA, to DARPA, in March 1972, changing back to ARPA in February 1993, then reverted to DARPA in March 1996.[8]
The agency's current director, appointed in March 2021, is Stefanie Tompkins.[9]
Mission
As of 2021, their mission statement is "to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security".[10]
