Google hires DARPA director Dugan
March 19, 2012
DARPA director Regina Dugan will take a position as a senior executive with Google, Wired Danger Room reports.
Dugan’s emphasis on cybersecurity and next-generation manufacturing earned her strong support from the White House, winning her praise from the President and maintaining the agency’s budget even during a period of relative austerity at the Pentagon.
Her push into crowdsourcing and outreach to the hacker community were eye-openers in the often-closed world of military R&D.
Dugan also won over some military commanders by diverting some of her research cash from long-term, blue-sky projects to immediate battlefield concerns.