---
title: "Steve Lukasik"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Stephen J. Lukasik"
aliases: ["Steve Lukasik","Stephen Lukasik"]
first_seen: "2026-10-19T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["DARPA/ARPA Director","Mansfield Amendment","Larry Roberts","IPTO budget politics"]
seek_code_commit: "d40ee39"
---


Director of ARPA (later DARPA) from 1971 to 1975, spanning the exact years the 1969 Mansfield Amendment forced the agency to defend its research funding on military-relevance grounds. In [[entity-larry-roberts|Larry Roberts]]'s CBI oral history (OH 159, 1989), Lukasik is named repeatedly as the approval authority Roberts had to "sell" IPTO budget requests to during this period — the person-shaped other end of the funding pressure the vault's Mansfield/DARPA cluster has so far only seen described from the program-manager side (Roberts, [[claim-werbos-1978-docsub-blocked|Werbos]]). Matters to the vault's DARPA-funding-politics cluster as the decision-maker whose office received the "crisis warning"-shaped pitches the cluster already documents being demanded.

## References
- Capture: 2026-10-19-does-robertss-primary-1988-bartee-chapter-or-the (OH 159, read via Wayback recovery; Lukasik appears in the transcript but is not yet the subject of a promoted claim-note)