# Ron Brachman American computer scientist and AI researcher who served as head of [[wiki/DARPA|DARPA]]'s Information Innovation Office and came from [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]]' AI research group. Brachman's career trajectory represents one of the government-research vectors through which Bell Labs methodology propagated into the national security and AI research ecosystem. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].