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In 2007 Tompkins joined DARPA's Strategic Technology Office as a program manager. [7] In the next decade, according to DARPA, she held many roles at the agency, including a stint as director of the Defense Sciences Office. [1] In 2017 she took up the temporary position of acting deputy director of DARPA. [8]
The program provided an alternative to traditional government contracting vehicles that was accessible to individuals and small companies previously unable to work within the cumbersome and complicated DARPA process. The novel contracting effort had an averaging time of 7 days from receipt of proposal to funding being provided to the proposing ...
Directors of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense; the Agency has variously been styled 'ARPA' and 'DARPA' over the years (see this link for more). Pages in category "DARPA directors"
DE LEON SPRINGS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sparton Corporation (NYS: SPA) was awarded a Phase 1 contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Upward Falling Payload (UFP ...
In 2016, DARPA Memex program received the 2016 Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons for the development of the anti-trafficking technology tool. [235] The program was named and inspired by the Vannevar Bush's hypothetical device described in his 1945 article. [234] MeshWorm: an earthworm-like robot. [236]
Regina E. Dugan (born March 19, 1963), is an American businesswoman, inventor, technology developer and government official. She was the first female director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where she served from July 2009 until March 2012.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, formerly ARPA) has been the military's in-house innovator since 1958, a year after the USSR launched Sputnik.DARPA is widely known for creating ARPAnet, the predecessor of the internet, and has been instrumental in advancing hardened electronics, brain-computer interface technology, drones, and stealth technology.
Subpart 37.2 defines advisory and assistance services and provides that the use of such services is a legitimate way to improve the prospects for program or systems success. FAR Part 37.201(c) defines engineering and technical services used in support of a program office during the acquisition cycle.