Google hires DARPA director Dugan

March 19, 2012
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Darpa Director Regina Dugan at the 'All Things D' conference (credit: Nosillacast/Flickr)

DARPA director Regina Dugan will take a position as a senior executive with GoogleWired 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.