Check yous sentence again. It's not a complete sentence. It's a subjective clause.
For comparison, here is a sentence:
The irony of disparaging one when conversely you are denigrating yourself is appalling.
Secondly, the appalling part you added is redundant, for that is why I purposely left it out to create emphasis on what is heavily implied. Can you not read between the lines, brah.
I thought a DARPA was a fish?