Dr. Carol Muehrcke is the Director of Strategic Planning for Cyber Defense Agency. She is responsible for helping determine the CDA long- term strategic plan and coordinating those efforts. She has 13 years of experience in security-related product development and assurance. Prior to CDA, she led commercial software development projects to bring new security technologies to market, including the 3Com Embedded Firewall, where this technology was transferred from the DARPA Autonomic Distributed Firewall (ADF) program. She previously led the assurance effort for major NSA-sponsored development programs for high assurance Guard systems. Additionally, Dr. Muehrcke has 9 years experience in systems engineering for advanced manufacturing systems at Bell Laboratories. Her specialties include analytic assurance methods and integration with software development, requirements engineering, architecture level trust analysis and project management. Dr. Muehrcke has a Ph.D., in Mathematics from Rutgers University and an A.B. in Mathematics from Reed College. |