DARPA Gets a New Top Geek
The blue-sky tech thinkers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have a new hand at the helm with the appointment of Arati Prabhakar to replace former director Regina Dugan, now with Google. Prabhakar built an impressive resume in both the public and private tech sectors, then in 2001 joined U.S. Venture Partners, investing in green tech and IT start-ups (the name of the company may be familiar, Wired notes, because of its ill-starred bet on Solyndra).
