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Tether, Longest-Serving Darpa Chief, is Out 
Wired News | by Noah Shachtman | Mon, Feb 9
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So it's over.
Tony
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...
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