| Tether, Longest-Serving Darpa Chief, Is Out »blog.wired.com/defense/2009/02/t···est.html
The longest-serving chief of the Pentagon's premiere research agency is stepping down.
Tony Tether was appointed by then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to head Darpa in 2001. But, defying convention, Tether expected to remain in charge of the agency through the Spring, until the Obama administration named a successor. But today, in a widely-circulated e-mail, Tether abruptly announced that he had been asked to leave by the end of next week. |
