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DARPA Director to Speak
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Regina Dugan, the newly appointed director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), will speak to the engineering freshmen of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, Thursday, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m. in Burruss Hall.
Dugan earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Virginia Tech and a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the California Institute for Technology. She is the sole inventor on a patent for refueling satellites in orbit, and she has several additional provisional patents filed.
Dugan previously worked at DARPA from 1996 to 2000 before co-founding RedXDefense of Rockville, Md., in 2005. The company specializes in developing technologies to detect and counter explosives.
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