DARPA’s Toolbox Initiative Enhances Vendor Access to Tools and IP

Jan. 31, 2022

We talk about DARPA’s Toolbox Initiative with Serge Leef, program manager for DARPA’s Design Automation & Secure Hardware Organization, and Richard Powlowsky, Director, Government Programs & Strategic Accounts at Siemens Digital Industries Software.

Alix Paultre

Related To: Electronic Design

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DARPA’s Toolbox Initiative provides vendors with access to tools and IP under predictable legal terms and streamlined acquisition procedures. We talk about it with Serge Leef, who is program manager for DARPA’s Design Automation & Secure Hardware Organization, and Richard Powlowsky, Director, Government Programs & Strategic Accounts at Siemens Digital Industries Software.

About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.