Dr. Alenka Brown is Senior Science Advisor and Special Advisor for Human Behaviors to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Networks & Information Integration/ Department of Defense Chief Information Office (ASD(NII)/DoD CIO) under the auspice of the Integrated Information & Communications Technology Support (IIS) Directorate.
Her role is on the human interoperability at the international, national and strategic levels concerning policy development and guidance for information integration sharing and adaptation for command, control, and communications across DoD, other USG Agencies, and non-government domains. She serves as the Senior Liaison Advisor to the Defense Agencies and Intelligence Community, and is Director of Human System Development under the National Security Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
She initiated the OSD-NII “Human Interoperability Enterprise” initiative and the development of an “integrated behavioral analysis capability” for governance interoperability of social-behavioral models, tools and capabilities.
Dr. Brown earned a Ph.D. in Human Factors Engineering (w/an emphasis in cognitive engineering); M.S. in Electrical Engineering, and a B.S. in Computer Science. She is a Certified Human Factors Professional.
Dr. Brown is considered one of the foremost experts of micro-behavior communications for: cross-cultural behavior pattern recognition and analysis, negotiations processes, influencing and countermeasures. Her field of knowledge ranges from design and implementation of instrumentation and controls and sensors for nuclear weapons and power, integration of existing capabilities and technologies, biometrics, rapid assessment of human response, vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures, systems of systems integration, IED, to Hard and Deeply Buried Targets (HDBT), and other domains.
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