I don't know if anyone caught the part where Dr. Steven Walker, Former Director of DARPA, on video says:

DARPA about 5 or 6 years ago set up an office called the Biotechnology Office and the real purpose of that was to understand how biology worked, and then build, design - uh, design, build and test cycles where you could engineer microorganisms to do things that you want to do.

...but... what the flying fuck is that supposed to mean?!