Richard Singer

Dr. Richard Singer joined DARPA in March 2021 as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office. His research interests include novel methods for thermal control of spacecraft, advanced materials as mission enablers, enhanced space domain awareness, and advanced on-orbit operations. He has an extensive background in visible and infrared focal plane arrays and microelectromechanical devices.

Prior to joining DARPA, Singer was an advanced materials expert at the Advanced Systems and Technology Directorate of the National Reconnaissance Office, where he facilitated several transitions of novel material components to programs of record. Before that, he was senior director of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Advanced Technology Laboratory, where he led development of disruptive payloads and satellites including EAGLE, the first self-propelled ESPA ring satellite.

Previous to those positions, Singer was associate director of electronic materials in the Department of Defense Office of the Undersecretary for Defense Research and Engineering, where he co-chaired the Action Officers Working Group of the Radiation Hardened Oversight Committee. He was responsible for developing and monitoring funded technology roadmaps that insured future access to radiation hardened electronics, essential for the survivability of U.S. space assets.

Singer holds a doctorate in electronic materials engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts in physics from the University of Colorado in Boulder.