The UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) is often referred to as a “UK DARPA”. While ARIA is no DARPA clone, many features of the agency are admittedly DARPA-inspired, such as the use of term-limited program managers, which ARIA calls program directors. These program directors serve as chief visionaries for their programs as well as fund and actively manage teams of coordinated external researchers towards a program's well-defined goal. Despite these similarities, the founding team...