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Ms.
Terry W. Roberts
Executive Director of the Acquisition Support Program (ASP)/Interagency and Cyber
SEI
Terry W. Roberts is Executive Director of the Acquisition Support Program (ASP)/Interagency and Cyber. She leads SEI customer support for the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. intelligence community, and the federal government, with a special focus on network security and acquisition in today’s cyber environment and architecture areas.
Before coming to the SEI, Ms. Roberts was the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence (DDNI), where she led, together with the Director of Naval Intelligence, more than 20,000 intelligence and information-warfare military and civilian professionals and managed more than $5 billion in resources, technologies, and programs globally, working seamlessly with the entire defense-intelligence and Intelligence-Community senior leadership.
She has also served as the director of requirements and resources for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USDI) and has held many senior intelligence positions, including director of Intelligence, Commander Naval Forces Europe and Commander-in-Chief NATO AFSOUTH; director, Defense Intelligence Resource Management Office (manager of the General Defense Intelligence Program); director, Naval Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Scientific and Technical Intelligence (S&TI) analysis at the Office of Naval Intelligence; special assistant to the Associate Director of Central Intelligence for Military Support and the Chief of Staff for the Director Military Intelligence Staff.
In addition, Roberts has directed, conducted, and enabled intelligence operations globally, with much of this work being focused on the requirements, planning, and implementation of intelligence and communications technologies, software, and architectures.
Ms. Robert’s personal awards include the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Civilian Service; National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation; Director of Central Intelligence National Intelligence Certificate of Distinction; the Navy Senior Civilian Award of Distinction, and the NGA Personal Medallion for Excellence. She received a BA from the University of Maryland, an MSSI, National Defense Intelligence College and Marine Corps Command and Staff.
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Presentation:
'Why R&D in the Cyber/Software Arena is Different and What are the Game Changing Technologies?'
The days of primarily hardware centric, proprietary systems have rapidly transitioned to system of system (SOS) and ultra large systems in netted environments. These SOS architectures now form the foundation for the Cyber Environment, within which we conduct all of our societal, economic, infrastructure, industry, defense and intelligence key functions, and work. Better to ask what don’t we do in the Cyber Environment today?
But the dynamics of this arena, this science, are like no other for many reasons. And those dynamics dictate different approaches for conducting game changing R&D – R&D which is not occurring in a comprehensive, thoughtful way – through effective partnerships between government, industry and academia.
So let’s start with what major R&D has been conducted in the past ten years in the Cyber Assurance and Security area. And what key gaps remain and what work is yet to be done. Then step back as a team and truly review our R&D priorities of today, the resources being expended and the results we want and need to achieve.
You will quickly find that relatively negligible resources are expended on foundational to cutting edge research that enables technological innovation and mission success. We will be discussing:
- Why R&D in cyber and software engineering is different
- How to research the Federal lab landscape for opportunities
- Where and how to focus our R&D Initiatives – potential way forward
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