Hussein placed an Indian woman who ran the failed Solyndra as head of Darpa to replace Regina Dugan, had been investigated to fraud.
I am beginning to think DARPA is a money laundering business.
who does the actual research?
https://www.wired.com/2012/07/darpa-solyndra/
Until last year, Arati Prabhakar worked for the venture capitalists who backed Solyndra, the green-tech firm that imploded in a scandal described by Mitt Romney as an example of the White House's "crony capitalism." Now Prabhakar has a new job, this one in the Obama administration: running the Pentagon's most important research agency. But being the geek-in-chief requires investing billions on risky, high-tech bets that aren't so different from Solyndra.
Prabhakar, who starts in her new position at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on July 30, will be Darpa's first Indian-American chief. And she boasts an impressive resume. Prabhakar came to this country at the age of 3, growing up in Lubbock, Texas. She earned a Ph.D. in applied physics from Caltech and founded Darpa's Microelectronics Technology Office. In 1993, at the age of 34, she was appointed as the head of the 3,000-person National Institute of Standards and Technology. From there, she left for Silicon Valley, where she became a top officer at a specialty materials company. She joined the venture capital firm U.S. Venture Partners in 2001, spending a decade investing in green tech and IT start-ups.