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Keyword is "former". She probably left because of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan#Potential_conf...

I don't think a single person that no longer works there can represent the entire process of an agency.

If anything, Facebook's building 8, only reflects badly on her and Facebook.

That’s a fair point. For what it’s worth the complaints I heard about her management from PI at building 8 were strictly about her style of extreme micro management which seemed to be pretty different from the rest of Facebook, he never mentioned any of the corruption allegations. For example laying out years of research with what she called “inch stones”of weekly expected progress in the initial proposal. I’ve never worked with DARPA myself so I can’t say whether that was something unique to her.

> I’ve never worked with DARPA myself so I can’t say whether that was something unique to her.

Up to the PM. DARPA is definitely more heavy-handed than other funding orgs, for whom annual reports are pretty common. But monthly check-ins is on the extreme end of things even for DARPA. Quarterly/six month are more common. Never heard of weekly, and I doubt many PIs would put up with that for very long.

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