Ms. Barbara J. Pica has been with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency since 1983. She has served as a program/financial analyst for a variety of major DARPA Technical Offices, including Strategic Technology, Defense Manufacturing, Nuclear Monitoring, and Naval Technology.

Her present position, Assistant Director of Program Management of the Microsystems Technology Office, entails the oversight of all program planning, budgeting, and execution; responsibility for preparation of program/budget documentation for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Congress; development and coordination of acquisition strategies; direction of procurement and funding actions; contractor source selection; monitoring and control of contractor cost and schedule performance; and office compliance with security, internal management controls, and other DoD/DARPA administrative and management requirements.

Ms. Pica holds a B.S. degree in Art from Longwood College.