New development model for the weapons industry.

Spacex has a good business model, they develop a finished product BEFORE they have any contract or deal signed with a (government) customer. When they have the first iteration of their product ready, they sell it/rent it out and immidietely start developing the next iteration. 

The weapon industry should use this model. If they don't have the necessary tech, they should just ask DARPA about it. Trust me, they have it. even if they don't know it. 

Just go whine to someone with influence. Explain how the new product will save soldier lives. 

And if the product seems like a good idea, DARPA will be influenced to give tech to the weapons project. Stop being so timid and GET IT DONE.

The need of civilian equivalent of DARPA

The civilian sector needs their own DARPA to help with the development of medicine, food, energy, transport and some electronics. This agency could use and develop tech from DARPA.

There could in theory be situations that DARPA has tech that it wants to give to medical companies, but the tech is so sensitive that they are not allowed to talk about it.

And the medical sector may not even know that some tech is even remotely possible so they don't ask anyone about it.

My guess is that DARPA has managed to help with development of medicine technologies among other things. 

But this process could possibly become much faster if there was a civilian version of DARPA that could receive tech directly from DARPA and in some cases present it as something they developed themselves.

It would in theory be much easier for civilian companies to talk to a civilian agency.