Technology solutions developer QinetiQ North America of McLean, Va., announced that its Technology Solutions Group (TSG) in Waltham, Mass. has appointed Dr. Gregory Duckworth as its first director of advanced research and development. Duckworth joined TSG's Foster-Miller Inc. subsidiary in February 2007 after four years as program manager at DARPA in the Special Projects and Strategic Technologies offices. Duckworth received his ScD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Electrical Engineering and Oceanographic Engineering; EE and SM degrees from the department of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his BSEE from Rice University.