Ms. Jennifer Thabet is an experienced program manager with an extensive background supporting DARPA and the Department of Defense (DoD). Enhancing the ability of the small business community to create and transition revolutionary technologies that benefit the warfighter, federal government, and commercial marketplace is of paramount importance in Ms. Thabet’s role of program director, DARPA Small Business Programs Office (SBPO). She is focused on creating an environment that considers small business concerns a primary source of innovative solutions and advancing small business relationships and training opportunities within the DoD and other federal agencies. Ms. Thabet also leads the agency’s inaugural Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA), DARPAConnect, an effort designed to break down barriers of entry for performers new to DARPA and the national security space, and educate them on how to engage and work with DARPA.