Stephen Kuhn
Program Manager
Information Innovation Office
Dr. Stephen Kuhn joined DARPA in October 2024. His research interests include resilient systems design, language security (langsec), and blended architectures focusing on transition to solve warfighter needs.
He joins DARPA from industry, where he focused on transitioning and implementing technologies.
Before that, Kuhn served 22 years in the federal government, including the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense working on policy, the Air Force Research Laboratory researching various technologies, hypervisor design, hardware virtualization, large-scale data processing, data format enforcement, and blended hardware-software architectures, and Air Combat Command transitioning modernizing cyber capabilities.
Kuhn is a Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve and has served nearly a year in Afghanistan as the Signals Intelligence Officer in charge of a task force, working with multiple U.S. and foreign partners.
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in engineering science from Dartmouth College, a master’s in engineering from Syracuse University, and began his academic career at Clarkson University. He has published multiple papers on resilient systems techniques and operating systems design.