Richard-Duane Chambers (Fed)

Richard-Duane Chambers serves as the Director of Policy and Integration in CHIPS R&D. In that role, he leads a team responsible for overseeing interagency and policy coordination, international engagement, small business development, standards promotion, and education and workforce development. Prior to joining CHIPS R&D, Chambers served as a senior professional staff member on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, where he led staff on the Subcommittee on Space and Science and advised the committee on decision-making and policy relevant to multiple agencies, including NIST, the National Science Foundation and NASA. Chambers also contributed analysis of semiconductor technology and manufacturing trends to build support for the CHIPS and Science Act, which he helped to draft and negotiate. Chambers previously served as special assistant to the director and chief of staff for the Electronics Resurgence Initiative at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Before that, Chambers was a lead associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, serving as chief of staff to the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office. He was a Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he received a master’s degree in technology and policy, and a bachelor’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics.