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We Accomplished Some Really Amazing Things in a Really Challenging Time

Technologically Speaking Podcast: Season 2, Episode 10. In this very special episode listen as past and present S&T leaders recall the lifechanging impacts of 9/11, discuss how S&T came to be, and reflect on their personal legacies at the Directorate. You’ll hear everything from where they were when the Twin Towers fell and the increasing risk of chemical threats in S&T’s early days to the science and technology battling the COVID-19 pandemic and rise of artificial intelligence today. These eight leaders share their accounts of what it was like to helm a research and development agency in the face of some of the most significant national events of our time. Show notes: (DHS Audio by Science & Technology Directorate/Released)