| DOE | "The Department of Energy: To protect our national and economic security by providing world-class scientific research capacity and ..." |
| DARPA | "Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: The DARPA mission is to develop imaginative, innovative and often high-risk research ideas offering a significant technological impact that will go well beyond the normal evolutionary developmental approaches ..." |
| NASA | National Aeronautics Space Agency: "In broad terms, our mandate is to pioneer the future . . . to push the envelope . . . to do what has never been done before. An amazing charter indeed ..." |
