Ann Campbell

Biography

Dr. Ann Campbell is the Director for Cyber Strategy and Resource Coordination at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  She is responsible for ensuring coordination, maturation and implementation of the Labs’ Cyber Strategy, which includes advanced capability development as well as maturing our workforce, infrastructure and policies. Ann is leading development of the Digital Assurance for High Consequence Systems Mission Campaign, which focuses on creating the technical foundations needed to allow effective, efficient assessment and management of digital risk for national security systems and incorporating digital assurance into systems engineering workflows. 

Prior to her current position, Ann was the Director of Weapons Design & Assurance with responsibility for engineering design and development of a wide range of non-nuclear components for US nuclear weapons systems, including nuclear surety devices, firing systems, interconnects, and high-reliability electronic products. Her organization also developed electrical testers, flight test subsystems, and telemetry systems.  

Ann’s previous leadership assignments (all at Sandia) include: Director of National Security Programs (NSP) Program Management; Acting Director for Electronic Systems; Director of Systems Assessment & Research and the Proliferation Assessment Program; Director of Information Solutions and Services; Senior Manager Deputy for Cyber Research in the Chief Technology Office; Acting Director for the Labs’ Cyber Security Strategic Thrust; and Senior Manager for Assessment Technologies in the Information Systems and Analysis Center. 

Ann has served on several National Academies committees focused on technology surprise, including the TIGER Standing Committee, the Committee on Science and Technology for Defense Warning, and the Committee on Capability Surprise on U.S. Naval Forces. She holds a B. S. degree in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in Applied Physics from Harvard University and is an MIT Seminar XXI Fellow (2009 – 2010). 

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