The report "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" proposed the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy. The report suggested ARPA-E to be modeled after DARPA, which was created in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik.   The U.S. now faces new Sputnik-like challenges, including energy security; maintaining a technological lead; and greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. In many cases, we as a nation are lagging behind and need to change course with fierce urgency. Arun Majumdar of ARPA-E explains the agency’s goal is to help catalyze this change by attracting the best minds to focus on major technical challenges and stimulating the technical and entrepreneurial community to create innovative energy technologies. From the Series:CSE Colloquia - 2010