Regina E. Dugan

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Official photo of Regina Dugan as director of DARPA

Regina E. Dugan (born March 19, 1963 ) is an American scientist and businesswoman. From 2009 to 2011 she was director of the research group at the US Department of Defense, DARPA , and then moved to Google . In April 2016, her move to Facebook was announced.

education

She has two degrees in mechanical engineering: a Masters from Virginia Tech and a Ph.D. at Caltech . Her early research gave birth to several patents marketed through her company, Dugan Ventures , and she was a co-author of the book Engineering Thermodynamics.

Career

When she joined DARPA in 1996, she switched to military-industrial research . As a project manager, she was successful for the Dog's Nose program, which is used to locate landmines and other explosive substances. She was named DARPA Program Manager of the Year in 1999 and won the De Fleury Medal of the Technical Forces in 2000 . This was accompanied by an appointment to the counterterrorism task force for the Deputy Secretary of Defense in 1999 . From 2001 to 2003 she served as a special advisor to the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army . She has accompanied a number of military-funded research projects at the Science Board, Army Science Board, National Research Council, Science Foundation, Naval Research Advisory Committee, Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the Technology Panel.

Since 2005, she has been involved in the newly founded defense company RedXDefence LLC through Dugan Ventures, which conducts research into the threat of explosives. She was initially President and Managing Director there until she returned to DARPA in 2009 (see below). Successor was her father Vincent Dugan.

Since 2009, DARPA has expanded its activities in the direction of cyber terrorism and announced the DARPA Network Challenge . She herself was appointed director of DARPA on July 20, 2009, appeared increasingly at public events and was interview partner in programs in the mass media. In 2011 she was listed on Fortunes Most Influential Women and featured as a Tech Titan by Washingtonian Magazine .

Her connection to RedXDeference was a public issue in March 2011 when it became known that DARPA had placed $ 1.8 million in contracts with RedXDefence and it received a $ 250,000 bill of exchange . The responsible state secretaries Ashton Carter and Jeh Johnson did not recognize any conflict of interest in a statement from May 2011, as the business connection was disclosed at all times. In August 2011, however, the Inspector General initiated an investigation.

In March 2012 she left DARPA and switched to Google . There she heads the Motorola department for innovative research in mobile communications (Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology and Projects). The technologies developed under the code names X Phone and X Tablet are to be launched on the market from 2013.

From June 11th to 14th, 2015 she took part in the 63rd Bilderberg Conference in Telfs-Buchen in Austria .

From April 2016 to October 2017, Dugan headed a future department operated by Facebook at the company's California headquarters under the name Building 8 . The department pursues the goal of reading out simple thought processes by recognizing neural processes and evaluating them for interaction and communication between humans and machines ( brain-computer interface ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ' http://www.darpa.mil/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=2391'  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.darpa.mil  
  2. ↑ http://www.duganventures.com/team.html
  3. ↑ a b c http://www.huffingtonpost.com/project-on-government-oversight/regina-dugan-google_b_1345291.html
  4. ↑ http://www.golem.de/news/motorola-googles-neuartiges-x-phone-kom-2013-1212-96524.html
  5. ^ Cade Metz: "Ex-Darpa Head Regina Dugan Leaves Google for Facebook" wired.com of April 13, 2016
  6. ↑ Handelsblatt: The mind reader leaves Facebook handelsblatt.com on October 18, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Dugan, Regina E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American scientist and businesswoman
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1963