Suzanne Beers
Dr. Suzanne Beers is MITRE’s Defense Systems Engineering Department Manager, leading personnel and portfolio management of four OSD-level test and evaluation (T&E) projects. In addition to her Department Manager responsibilities, Suzanne is the Technical Lead for OSD/DTE&A’s Decision Support Evaluation Framework initiative. This work includes evolving the decision-evaluation-test concept from separate developmental and operational evaluation frameworks and applying it to both acquisition programs of record and full-spectrum (S&T to sustainment – especially to prototyping and experimentation) decision-support informed by operational and technical capability evaluation.
Suzanne joined MITRE in Colorado Springs after retiring from the USAF in October 2008. Her final assignment was as the Commander, Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center’s Detachment 4 at Peterson AFB leading the OT&E of space, missile, and missile defense systems.
Suzanne holds a plethora of degrees (five) from a wide variety of institutions of higher learning…giving her plenty of cheering flexibility during college football season…including a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Suzanne caught the triathlon bug, spending last decade swimming, biking, running or talking triathlon. She has since traded-in triathlon for astrophotography. She’d be happy to entertain any triathlon or astrophotography questions, in addition to those related to her work and presentation!
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