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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.
DARPA is independent of other military research and development and reports directly to senior Department of Defense management. DARPA comprises approximately 220 government employees in six technical offices, including nearly 100 program managers, who together oversee about 250 research and development programs. [8]
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"
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Anthony J. Tether (born ca. 1941) served as Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from June 18, 2001, until February 20, 2009. As Director, Dr. Tether was responsible for management of the Agency's projects for high-payoff, innovative research and development. In 2020, he became a consultant with MISTRAS Group, USA. [1]
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The President of the United States is, according to the Constitution, the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and Chief Executive of the Federal Government. The Secretary of Defense is the "Principal Assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense", and is vested with statutory authority (10 U.S.C. § 113) to lead the Department and all of its component ...
On July 30, 2012, she became the head of DARPA, replacing Regina E. Dugan. [9] She left DARPA in January 2017. [18] Prabhakar was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford 2017–18. [19] In 2019, she started Actuate, a nonprofit organization focused on issues including climate change and chronic ...