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New Program Managers

DARPA program managers address national security challenges from every possible technology angle and recognize that success comes from attracting the help of scientists and engineers across many different disciplines—in academia, government labs, and companies large and small. Featured here are program managers who have arrived at the Agency within the past six months. They bring with them fresh ideas and priorities, and a sense of urgency to take advantage of their positions at DARPA to catalyze the creation of truly radical technologies. We encourage you to reach out to them as they develop their portfolios of new DARPA programs to share research proposals that reflect your dreams of new capabilities and technologies.

CDR Greg Sutton

CDR Greg Sutton

Program Manager, Strategic Technology Office
Cmdr. Greg Sutton joined DARPA in August 2019 as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office (STO). His research interests include maritime access; offensive non-kinetics; and novel maritime tagging, tracking, and locating concepts. More
| Maritime | Sensors |

Dr. Amy Jenkins

Program Manager, Biological Technologies Office
Dr. Amy Jenkins joined DARPA as a program manager in the Biological Technologies Office (BTO) in June 2019. Her interests include the development of platforms for combatting infectious disease threats as well as novel manufacturing methods to enable rapid response. More
| Chemistry | Disease | Health | Manufacturing | Therapy |

Dr. Michael Zuniga

Program Manager, Strategic Technology Office
Dr. Michael Zuniga joined DARPA as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office in July 2019. His research interests include over-the-horizon radar and electro-optical systems to enhance the mosaic warfare concept. He is also interested in novel radio frequency (RF) and acoustic active cancellation countermeasures enabled by emerging unmanned aerial vehicle and autonomous underwater vehicle systems; adaptive control of underwater acoustic radiation; and physics-based signal and sensor array processing with application to RF and acoustic surveillance systems. More
| Countermeasures | EW | ISR |

Dr. Gregory Avicola

Program Manager, Tactical Technology Office
Dr. Gregory Avicola joined DARPA in May 2019 as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office. Areas of expertise include remote sensing (focus on maritime applications), undersea systems, and naval warfare. He is particularly interested in naval logistics, developing capabilities to exploit undersea mobility, improving both manned and unmanned undersea systems, and enabling undersea autonomous systems. More
| Maritime | Unmanned |

Dr. Adam Bryant

Program Manager, Strategic Technology Office
Dr. Adam Bryant joined DARPA as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office in May 2019. His research interests include remote sensing systems and signal processing, physics-based modeling and simulation, and data analytics. More
| EW | ISR | Maritime | Resilience | Sensors | Space |

Dr. Bartlett Russell

Program Manager, Defense Sciences Office
Dr. Bartlett Russell joined DARPA as a program manager in April of 2019. Her work focuses on understanding the variability of human cognitive and social behavior to enable the decision-maker, improve analytics, and generate autonomous and AI systems that enable human adaptability. Prior to joining DARPA, Russell was a senior program manager and lead of the human systems and autonomy research area in Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories. More
| AI | Analytics | Autonomy | Forecasting | Integration | Interface | Neuroscience | Resilience | Training | Trust | Visualization |
Dr. Douglas “Scott” Holmes

Dr. Douglas “Scott” Holmes

Program Manager, Microsystems Technology Office
Dr. Douglas “Scott” Holmes joined DARPA in February 2019 as a program manager in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO). His areas of interest include superconductor electronics and novel computing technologies. More
| Electronics | Microchips | Microsystems |

Dr. Randy Garrett

Program Manager, Strategic Technology Office
Dr. Randy Garrett joined DARPA in February 2019 as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office. Prior to arriving at DARPA, he worked for commercial cybersecurity companies. More
| Analytics | Math | Microsystems | Processing | Programming |