A watchdog group is asking the Defense Department’s Inspector General to review a potential conflict of interest between the director of the Pentagon’s research agency and a company she founded that has been awarded defense contracts by her agency.The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded about $6 million in contracts to RedXDefense, about $1.75 million of which came after Regina Dugan became director in July 2009, according to a letter the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) sent to DOD Inspector General Gordon S. Heddell. Dugan founded RedXDefense and POGO said Dugan’s father is RedXDefense’s chief executive officer and her uncle is on the board.
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