DARPA is incredibly flexible with who it hires to be program managers. 

A large part of a DARPA program manager’s job is focused network building and the Internet is one of the greatest network building tools of all time. However, DARPA doesn’t have a strong web presence and the idea that DARPA’s aversion to people with a web presence may be how they avoid asymmetric career risk suggests that there are good reasons for the low Internet utilization. However, the Polyplexus project, a DARPA effort to foster an idea-generating online community, suggests that DARPA may realize that it’s no longer at the pareto front of this tradeoff and that it might be able to more effectively use the Internet to execute on its model. The Internet could conceivably help PMs find people working on the edge of a space, foster communication between performers, and find gaps in the state of the art. What would a riff on the ARPA Model built to take advantage of the Internet look like?