DARPA Leadership

Mr. Dale Waters is the Director of the Adaptive Execution Office. He is responsible for improving the transition worthiness of DARPA programs by establishing and executing a framework for transition that can be applied across DARPA. He leads AEO in providing a corporate resource to assist DARPA program managers throughout their tenure. This assistance takes the form of introductions to war fighters, new concept development and refinement, transition planning, end-user demonstrations and field trials, and operational evaluations. He also plays a leading role in transitioning technology to the U.S. Air Force and assisting with end-user quick response requirements.

Arati Prabhakar, Ph.D., is director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Serving in this position since July 2012, she has focused the agency’s efforts on rethinking complex military systems in fundamental ways; harnessing the information explosion to address national security challenges; and planting new seeds of technological surprise in fields as diverse as mathematics, synthetic biology, and neurotechnology.

Dr. Bradford Tousley joined DARPA in January 2013 as the director of the Tactical Technology Office (TTO). TTO transforms the future of warfighting by pursuing high-risk, high payoff tactical technology and development of rapid, mobile and responsive combat capability for advanced weapons, platforms and space systems.

Dr. Brian Pierce is the Deputy Director of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O). This is Dr. Pierce’s second tour at the agency, having served as the deputy office director of the Strategic Technology Office from 2005 to 2010.

Dr. Daniel Patt is the deputy director of DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office (STO). The STO portfolio is enabling robust distributed systems architectures through programs in battle management, command and control; communications and networking; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; and electronic warfare.