DARPA head resigns, moving on to industry
By: Jill Aitoro December 17, 2019
DARPA Director Steven Walker spoke to Defense News' Jill Aitoro about what the agency is working on.
WASHINGTON — Steven Walker, the 21st director of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, announced his resignation on Tuesday, which will be effective Jan.10, 2020, Defense News has learned.
Walker will move on to a position in industry, though a DARPA spokesman did not reveal where. DARPA Deputy Director Peter Highnam, a former director of research at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, will assume the role of acting director until a permanent director is appointed. Highnam is also a former director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.
DARPA is responsible for driving development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Walker and Vint Cerf, one of the creators of the internet, spoke to Defense News about that role in March, and how DARPA can support engagement with the tech community.
Among the key efforts launched under Walker’s tenure at DARPA was development and fielding of the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, which was accomplished in half the time of a normal development program, DARPA noted in an email.
Walker also reinvigorated the agency’s hypersonic weapons and space efforts, with major programs in boost-glide and air-breathing missile development as well as distributed low-Earth orbit satellite constellations.
Also noted by the agency: Under Walker’s leadership, DARPA launched the three-year, $1.5 billion Electronics Resurgence Initiative as well as the five-year, $2 billion AI Next program. Walker also “made pivotal investments in the realm of engineered biology, resulting in several breakthroughs, chief among them a program that has helped reduce Ebola fatality rates by more than 70 percent,” the email stated.
Walker succeeded Arati Prabhakar, who left the agency in January 2017
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Found this from an old Q post and re read the article. What jumped out was
( satelite constellations) and AI..
Also ebola involvement, paired with the pentagon press conference the other day, video was posted here, where they mention a covid project, also leads me to think that we dont know the half it of what these projets are used for.
Another thing that jumped out
Was the need for constant new feed of data. Which AI can then sort and analyze.
Thst is virtually imposdible with keystrokes.. But say we gave every human being a digital tag.. Say like nano bots.. That talk to the system and feed it new info… Welll. That would be a huge success.
Lets just jam everyone with a vaccine that poisons the mind and soul so we can feed AI its covid data..
The fuckers at Darpa are unethical genocidal lunatics.
Should be tried for conspiracy to perpetrate genocide and crimes against humanity.