Biden Nominating Former NIST Director to Lead OSTP

President Joe Biden intends to nominate Arati Prabhakar to be director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the White House announced Tuesday. Prabhakar led the National Institute of Standards and Technology 1993-1997 after unanimous Senate confirmation. She directed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 2012-2017. Prabhakar will “leverage her exceptional experience” as an applied physicist and engineer, said Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. She’s the “right person at the right time to support the U.S. innovation ecosystem.”