Terry Roberts was a fellow in New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative. She is the founder and president of Whitehawk, Inc.
Roberts is establishing the first cybersecurity e-commerce sharing community— enabling all businesses (especially mid-sized and small companies) to have continuous online access to tailored learning, smart buying and connections, and the best products, services, insights, and trends industry-wide. Previously, Roberts was the vice president for cyber engineering and analytics at TASC. From 2009 to 2015, Roberts was the executive director of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, leading the technical body of work for the entire U.S. Interagency and establishing the Carnegie Mellon Cyber Intelligence Consortium and the Emerging Technology Center.
Before transitioning to industry in 2009, Roberts was the deputy director of naval intelligence, where she led, with the director of naval intelligence, the initial approach for the merging of naval communications, information warfare, and intelligence under the OPNAV N2/N6. Earlier, Roberts served as the director of requirements and resources for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, spearheading the creation and implementation of the Military Intelligence Program, in partnership with the director of national intelligence, the services, the combat support agencies, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Roberts is the co-chair of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance Cyber Council and four task force efforts, a member of the AFCEA intelligence committee, the naval intelligence professionals board of directors and the cyber education advisory board of directors for the U.S. Naval Academy and Marymount University.