Ms. Kathleen Maxwell is the Acting Director for C5ISR Center’s Engineering and Systems Integration Directorate. In her role as Acting ESI Director, Ms. Maxwell is responsible for leading a world-class enterprise engaged in the life-cycle engineering, systems integration, and lab and field-based experimentation of C5ISR technologies and capabilities. She is responsible for establishing and executing a portion of the C5ISR Center’s comprehensive science and technology portfolio providing strategic program formulation guidance involving short-and long-range goals utilizing existing and anticipated state-of-the art advances in communications, networking, mission command, agile software development, and defensive cyber domains.

Prior to her role as Acting Director, she served as the Principal Deputy Director for ESI Directorate. She holds a bachelor of science in business administration with a concentration in accounting from Monmouth College and a master of science in business administration from Monmouth University.