http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/uk-science-minister-says-darpa-agency-works

U.K. science minister Chris Skidmore says a new U.K. funding agency, modeled after the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, would have minimal bureaucracy.

The U.K. government is working to establish a “blue sky” funding agency similar to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.K. science minister Chris Skidmore told the Science and Technology Select Committee of Parliament’s House of Commons today.