Ms Roberts is a global risk and cyber intelligence professional with over 20 years of Executive level experience across government, industry and academia, to include TASC VP Cyber Engineering and Analytics; an Executive Director Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute; and the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence. Before establishing WhiteHawk US, Ms Roberts was the TASC VP (a $1.3B Defence Industrial Base Company), for Cyber Engineering and Analytics across the US Government, running all Cyber/IT, Financial and Business Analytics cross cutting, technical services. Prior to TASC, Ms Roberts was an Executive Director of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, leading the technical body of work for the entire US Interagency (over $40M portfolio), with a focus on leveraging and transitioning commercial innovation and acquisition excellence to government programs and capabilities, establishing the Emerging Technologies Center and Cyber Intelligence Consortium. Before transitioning to industry in 2009, 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, leading the initial approach for the merging of Naval Communications and Intelligence under the OPNAV N2/N6 and the creation of the Information Dominance Corps. Ms Roberts also served as the Director of Requirements and Resources for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defence for Intelligence (USDI), spearheading the creation and implementation of the Military Intelligence Program (MIP) ($21B Program in capabilities and personnel), in partnership with the Director of National Intelligence, the Services, the Combat Support Agencies, and the Office of the Secretary of Defence (OSD). Terry has held executive positions, including Director of Intelligence, Commander Naval Forces Europe and Commander-in-Chief NATO AFSOUTH; Director, Defence Intelligence Resource Management Office (manager of the General Defence 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, Terry 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. Terry Roberts is Chair Emeritus of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) Cyber Council, was a Member of the AFCEA Intelligence Committee from 2008-2017, former President, Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP), a 2017/18 Cyber Fellow at New America (non-partisan think tank), and a member of the USNA Cyber Education Advisory Board of Directors since 2010 and of the Cyber Florida Advisory Board of Directors since 2018. Terry's personal awards include the Office of the Secretary of Defence Medal for Exceptional Civilian Service; the Navy Senior Civilian Award of Distinction, the NGA Personal Medallion for Excellence; the Coast Guard Distinguished Public Service Award; the Director of Central Intelligence National Intelligence Certificate of Distinction; the National Intelligence Reform Medal; and the National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation.
