Voices from DARPA

Author: DARPA

DARPAs podcast series, "Voices from DARPA," offers a revealing and informative window on the minds of the Agency's program managers. In each episode, a program manager from one of DARPAs six technical officesBiological Technologies, Defense Sciences, Information Innovation, Microsystems Technology, Strategic Technology, and Tactical Technologywill discuss in informal and personal terms why they are at DARPA and what they are up to. The goal of "Voices from DARPA" is to share with listeners some of the institutional know-how, vision, process, and history that together make the secret sauce DARPA has been adding to the Nations innovation ecosystem for nearly 60 years. On another level, we at DARPA just wanted to share the pleasure we all have every dayin the elevator, in the halls, in our meeting roomsas we learn from each other and swap ideas and strive to change whats possible.
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The Economics Aficionado: Episode 94
Friday, 12 June, 2026

What if we could turn economic complexity into strategic understanding? In this episode, we sit down with David Rushing Dewhurst, Ph.D., a program manager in DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office, IPTO. Dewhurst works at the complex intersection of economics, data science, and national security to develop tools that help America navigate a world where economic competition has become a primary battlefield. Dewhurst shares his unconventional path to the agency and takes us through two of his programs: Anticipatory and Adaptive Anti-Money Laundering, A3ML: An innovative program that aims to eliminate global money laundering by treating it as an economic supply-and-demand problem, while preserving privacy through a decentralized approach. National Security Economic Theory, NASCENT: A program focused on establishing a principled theoretical foundation for geoeconomics and building generic playbooks for economic statecraft. Tune in to discover how Dewhurst is redefining the tools of economic statecraft to prevent pan-domain strategic surprise.