The Senate on Thursday confirmed Dario Gil as the under secretary for science and innovation at the Department of Energy and Conner Prochaska as director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E. The upper chamber confirmed the top two DOE leaders, along with dozens of other nominees for federal government positions, through an en bloc vote of 51-47.Who Is Dario Gil? Gil most recently served as senior vice president and director of research at IBM. According to his LinkedIn profile, Prochaska has been serving as senior adviser to the DOE secretary since February. During President Trump’s first term, he was chief commercialization officer and director of the Office of Technology Transitions at DOE.