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Engineering has a lot of challenges in

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it and I've worked on a number of

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demanding projects during my time. But

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the one area that I think is a

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particular challenge is the area of

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dual use technologies. It's very hard

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for an engineering team to be able to

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simultaneously succeed in the

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commercial marketplace and the DOD

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marketplace. When I showed up at DARPA,

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I took over a project that was trying

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to do exactly that with a high speed

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optical transceiver. And it was

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interesting because we had four teams

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all pursuing the same end goal and it

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was almost impossible at the beginning

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to tell who was going to win. They

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were all working with essentially the

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same materials, the same components,

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the same laws of physics. But one team

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had superior engineering talent versus

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the other three and that was the team

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that won and their project. The

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product that they developed became both

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a success in the commercial marketplace

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and was subsequently used in DOD

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weapons systems as well . A remarkable

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achievement and one that I'm hoping to

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see repeated again and again.