DARPA’s Director Will Soon Be a Google Executive

Adam Clark Estes
The Atlantic
March 13, 2012

You probably don’t know Regina Dugan’s name, but for the past three years, she’s been director of DARPA, the military’s R&D lab. In a few weeks, she’ll be moving into an executive position at Google, becoming one of the most senior military officials to cross over to the private sector.

The news that Google is hiring another executive, which comes by way of Wired‘s Noah Shactman, isn’t such a big deal, but the fact that she happens to have orchestrated one of the most innovative periods of battlefield technology might raise a few eyebrows. What in the world does Google have planned that it’s hiring military leadership? Dugan’s career in science and technology offers some clues, and based on what she told Fast Company last November, she appears to have a knack for innovating quickly. “The defense world is like a mini-society,” she said.

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This article was posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 12:13 pm

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