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Dr. John Evans Program Manager

Dr. John D. Evans has served as a DARPA Program Manager since November 2002. He works with offices across DARPA, with the bulk of his work in the Microsystems Technology and Virtual Space Offices (MTO and VSO).

Before joining DARPA, Dr. Evans served as Chief Technical Officer at Microfabrica, a start-up in the Micro and Nanotechnology space. He has also served as a consultant and scientist with Becton Dickinson, a Fortune 500 bioscience and medical technology company, and as an Energy Policy consultant for the United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). Dr. Evans earned a B.A. in Physics from Carleton College; an M.S. in Civil Engineering and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley; and an M.B.A. from Duke University.

Dr. Evans' interests at DARPA include technology strategy and innovation management, as well as technology areas including RF/MMW systems, aerospace, and nuclear technology. His program areas include: 3-D Micro Electromagnetic Radio Frequency Systems, Analog Spectral Processors, Disruptive Manufacturing Technology, Micro Electric Propulsion, Micro Space Propulsion, and Micro Isotope Power Sources. His non-program areas include actuators, orthotics, batteries, assembly and integration, and a range of other technologies. He was also directly involved in the formulation of the Defense Science Office's Nano Air Vehicles (NAV) program.

On the strategy and management side, Dr. Evans is keenly interested in how organizations conduct innovation, how economies organize for innovation, how these processes have evolved over time thereby impacting an innovator's ability to capture value from innovation. His current work focuses on better understanding market failures in markets for know-how and looking for strategies to overcome these failures, thereby enabling value to flow through innovation networks and providing strong incentives to those who conduct R&D.