Dr. Preston Marshall

Program Manager, XG Cognitive Radio
DARPA

Preston F. Marshall has an almost 30 year background in communications, software and hardware development and system development. Currently he is with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Technology Office (ATO), and serves a Program Manager for several of the DARPA Networking programs, including Connectionless Networking, investigating low energy protocols in low duty cycle ad-hoc networks; neXt Generation (XG) Communications, developing networks that provide adaptive spectrum usage; WOLFPACK, developing a distributed network of forward positioned, Coke-can sized electronic and network warfare devices; Disruption Tolerant Networking, Developing Delay Tolerant Networking and extending existing technology to address episodic connectivity, distributed name and routing spaces, and non-IP system transport; and a program to develop very small radioisotope power sources. Previously Mr. Marshall was employed by a number of systems and electronics companies. Mr. Marshall holds a B.S.E.E and M.S. Information Science from Lehigh University.