Speaker
Regina E. Dugan 
Director
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Regular D attendees will certainly remember Regina Dugan, who riveted the crowd at D9 with stories of Mach 20 airplanes and other cloak-and-dagger tech. A technogeek who has been widely recognized for her leadership in innovation and technology development, Dugan leads Motorola Mobility’s Advanced Technology & Projects group, a skunkworks-inspired team chartered to deliver breakthrough innovations. She was the first woman to lead the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the principal agency within the Department of Defense for research, development and demonstration of high-risk, high-payoff capabilities for the current and future combat force. The co-author of “Engineering Thermodynamics,” Dugan also co-founded and heads a niche investment firm.
Posts With Regina Dugan
What Assange, Slim, Kissinger and Others Told Eric Schmidt for His New Book
“It is hard to imagine de Gaulles and Churchills appealing in the world of Facebook,” said Henry Kissinger.
Google’s Page Hints at Tougher, Long-Lasting Phones From Motorola
The Google CEO says he’s “really excited” about what he has seen in the pipeline.
Let the D11 Speakers Begin: Sandberg, Silbermann, Costolo, Woodside, Immelt and More!
With many more to come, too!
News Byte
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).It’s Time to Googorola: Acquisition Finally Closes and Google’s Dennis Woodside Put in Charge
At long last, Google has completed its $12.5 billion cash purchase of Motorola Mobility, eight months after the deal was announced.
DARPA’s Regina Dugan Will Join Google
Regina Dugan, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is leaving to take a role at Google.
A TED View of the Future: Hypersonic Gliders, Liquid Batteries and Flying Robots
This morning the TED conference brought researchers out of the lab to show off their latest gadgets — if you can use the word “gadget” to describe collaborative flying robots.
TED Tech Preview: Robots, Crowdsourcing and Bill Nye
The T in TED stands for technology, and this year’s speaker program is stacked with techies talking about robots, energy, collaboration and, of course, The Future.
Voices
What Part of an Aircraft Going Mach 20 Can You See? The Back End.
On Thursday, Aug. 11, DARPA demonstrated stable aerodynamically controlled Mach 20 flight for nearly three minutes in its attempt to fly the fastest aircraft ever flown.
DARPA: That’s Mach 20, Baby
The Defense Department’s secret project agency is launching an aircraft today that does 13,000 miles per hour, or 20 times the speed of sound. Sweeeet.