I know her and she is quite able, but not more than lots of other people. Average at CIT, which has lots of women PhDs - the dept she was in was only formed a few years previously. She got her first big job, NIST director because Bill Clinton wanted visible minorities and women in appointee jobs. After being a director at a federal agency, other high level jobs are a lateral, and awards from every direction go with the territory. She's a fine person, quite able, but has benefited enormously from the favored status assigned by the exploiters of minority politics. BTW there is just no way whatever she would have touched the Solyndra cesspool.

@Richard Drozek: Wow, you are an ignorant bigoted moron. What's your resume, besides being a fool? Let's take a peak at the "dark-skinned Indian's" resume: Dr. Prabhakar received her Doctor of Philosophy in applied physics and Master of Science in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. She received her Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University. She began her career as a Congressional Fellow at the Office of Technology Assessment. Dr. Prabhakar joined DARPA in 1986 as a program manager. She initiated and managed programs in advanced semiconductor technology and flexible manufacturing. She was the founding director of DARPA’s Microelectronics Technology Office. Dr. Prabhakar was the chief technology officer and senior vice president at Raychem, and later vice president and then president of Interval Research. From 2001 to 2011, she was a partner with U.S. Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm. Dr. Prabhakar identified and served as a director for startup companies with the promise of significant growth. She worked with entrepreneurs focused on energy and efficiency technologies, consumer electronics components, and semiconductor process and design technologies. Dr. Prabhakar has served in recent years on the National Academies' Science Technology and Economic Policy Board, the College of Engineering Advisory Board at the University of California, Berkeley, and the red team of DARPA's Defense Sciences Research Council. In addition, she chaired the Efficiency and Renewables Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Prabhakar is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Texas Tech Distinguished Engineer, and a Caltech Distinguished Alumna. So Richard Drozek, stay in your parent's basement and play donkey kong and let the adults take of things.

What a bigot Richard Drozek is! "dark-skinned Indians" "trickery and outright lying"! America is a meritocracy and Prabakar has earned her position based on her academic achievements and work experience. Go jump out the window Richard if you cant measure up.

As always, a dual citizen of India and USA is propelled into Affirmative Action priority in University admissions, US Gov high-level executive paying positions, and applauded for her genius and acumen. Beginning with Lyndon Johnson, American born engineers have been pushed behind the bus by the agenda of the Democratic Party to insure that the dark-skinned Indians obtain the executive jobs and high paying opportunities that were the goals of American born citizens. Government run by the Democrats have destroyed economic opportunities for many of us and yet, through trickery and out-right lying, are pushing the uneducated and unskilled upon America's workers. I do not see why we should applaud a woman who "gamed the system" and forced the normal candidate for the job to take three steps behind the line, so that the DEMS could go after the Indians that took over our High Tech Jobs. I am sure that in the end, a price will be paid as more and the Democrat political class that uses gender and racial superiority and priority to gain an edge in the voting booth is marginalizing more Americans. The GOP is nothing more than an extension of this same mind set, that if you are born a white male, you must resign yourself to a struggling economic lifestyle so that foreign-born females from South America and India can steal our birthright!