Lisa J. Porter is the director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. Prior to this position, she was the Associate Administrator for Aeronautics Research at NASA

NASA

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 and a senior scientist in the Advanced Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Porter has a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a doctorate in applied physics from Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

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External links

• Lisa J Porter biography at NASA
• Discussion of Porter's appointment at Shepherd's Pi
• Q & A With Lisa Porter IEEE Spectrum
  IEEE Spectrum
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  May 1, 2008