by Noah Shachtman | Jul 10, 2012 | Monitor
New Darpa director Arati Prabhakar. Photo courtesy of SRI International 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...
by Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman | Jun 27, 2012 | Monitor
Two names have emerged in the search for the next director of the Pentagon’s premier research agency. Problem is, one of them has ties to Solyndra, the controversial solar energy firm that embroiled the White House in a scandal. And this isn’t exactly the...