"It's taking risks, but we're a young agency and the area has sprouted up.
Despite the announcements on Tuesday, however, the young agency has yet to confront many of the most significant issues.
It brought advertising stardom to the Saatchi brothers, Maurice and Charles, and planted their young agency on the international advertising map.
"This young agency is achieving remarkable drops in crime and addressing quality of life issues that were never addressed before by the more senior agency," he said.
The association has also produced a recruitment video, featuring Donny Deutsch, the prominent advertising executive, and young agency employees from New York shops, who all wax poetic about their jobs.
Gifford Hampshire, a press officer at the young agency, came up with the idea for the project and urged the agency's first administrator, William Ruckelshaus, to make it a reality.
WASHINGTON — As they complete their training at "The Farm," the Central Intelligence Agency's base in the Virginia tidewater, young agency recruits are taught a lesson they are expected never to forget during assignments overseas: there is no such thing as a friendly intelligence service.
"The young agency [ARPA-E]… is living off $15 million it received in 2009 after having committed some $400 million in stimulus funding.
One of ARPA-E's key congressional fathers, Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), gave the young agency high grades in remarks today during the third day of a 3-day summit hosted by the blue-sky energy agency.
Losing senior staff managers make the final calls on starting awards as well as killing funding later, if need be would be a heavy blow to the young agency.
