WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Exclusive: Darpa Gets a New Boss, and Solyndra Is in Her Past. “Until last year, Arati Prabhakar worked for the venture capitalists who backed Solyndra, the green-tech firm that imploded in a scandal described by Mitt Romney as an example of the White House’s ‘crony capitalism.’ Now Prabhakar has a new job, this one in the Obama administration: running the Pentagon’s most important research agency. But being the geek-in-chief requires investing billions on risky, high-tech bets that aren’t so different from Solyndra. . . . Prabhakar’s appointment once again raises an issue the president’s reelection campaign would rather forget.”