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Atlanta, GA | Posted: September 10, 2018
Rebecca Keane
Director of Communications
rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu
404.894.1720
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Dixon's lecture focused on the intersections of technology policy and national intelligence.
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Dr. Stacey DixonOn September 6, the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy welcomed Stacey Dixon, the newly appointed director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) within the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Entitled “Reacting To and Influencing Policy in High-Risk, High-Payoff Research within the Intelligence Community,” Dixon’s lecture touched on examples from IARPA's research. IARPA plays an essential role in the United States intelligence community as a funder of academic research across many technological and scientific disciplines. The organization also ensures their successful research projects are transferred over to relevant government agencies.
Dixon highlighted policy questions to frame the discussion:
Dixon’s experience in technology policy has also allowed her to work across a broad spectrum of congressional and governmental agencies. Before being promoted from deputy director to director of IARPA, she served as deputy director of research of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and as chief of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. In addition, she worked on the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and as a Central Intelligence Agency officer for the National Reconnaissance Office’s Advanced Systems and Technology Directorate.
Dixon is also a Georgia Tech alum as she holds doctorate and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.
The School of Public Policy is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
