sentences:  In fact he was so enthusiastic that the rest of the SC-21 program was suspended in favor of development of the Arsenal Ship.The Navy set up a joint venture with DARPA on March 18, 1996.The Arsenal Ship would be acquired as a prototype under DARPA's Other Transaction Authority under Section 845 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1994 (Public Law 103-160), which allowed them to bypass much of the bureaucracy involved with defense procurement, enabling a prototype to be built by the end of 2000.