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Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

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Electronic Conspicuity

The aviation environment is rapidly changing. To maintain pace, technology must either adapt or evolve. Until now, aviation safety has been maintained through a partitioned grid of air traffic control (ATC) systems comprised of radar, human observers, and Global Navigation Satellite System (...

Meet Our New Leadership: ARPA-I Welcomes Dr. Vincent Tang

​Dr. Vincent Tang is the deputy director of ARPA-I and performing the duties of the director to establish the agency.  Dr. Tang comes from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he was most recently the principal deputy director of the National Ignition Facility and Photon...