On this week in 1958, President Eisenhower wrote to Congress requesting supplemental appropriations for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency. One month later, the Secretary of Defense issued a directive establishing the new agency. https://youtu.be/jRz6mY9HZy0 #TBT
On February 7, 1958 the Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy established the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) with the goal “to provide within the Department of Defense an agency for the direction and performance of advanced research and development projects.”