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But the agency does little research on its own.<br\/><br\/> Instead, DARPA uses targeted funding to help the academic and private sectors take radical, far-fetched ideas into the realm of possibility.<br\/><br\/> The Defense Sciences Office (DSO)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0one of the six program areas\u00a0\u2014\u00a0is reaching out to these sectors in an effort to solicit more ideas and develop them on a track that will benefit national security and society writ large.<br\/><br\/> The office issues twice as many requests for information as the rest of DARPA combined, according to Dr. Bill Regli, DSO acting director. In those &#8220;seedling&#8221; requests, DSO is looking for &#8220;fundamentally disruptive,&#8221; &#8220;crazy ideas&#8221; that could lead to significant breakthroughs in how the U.S. defends and operates as a country, he explained during DARPA DSO Day on June 15.<br\/><br\/> To be successful, he said, proposers should be sure to pitch problems, not solutions.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;Bring me something you don&#8217;t know how to solve,&#8221; Regli said. Something &#8220;that you have the skills to address but is just far enough out \u2026 that it would change the way something works.&#8221;<br\/><br\/> &#8220;Come up with a scientific hypothesis. 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