Laura Freeman

Laura is SERC’s point person for collaboration with the Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation. She has produced research on enhanced T&E of learning-based systems, performance measures for autonomous intelligent agents in satellite systems, and intellectual property data. For SERC’s Acquisition Innovation Research Center, she has also produced reports on T&E for middle-tier acquisition and AI/ML, autonomous, and continuously evolving systems, digital data management, and driving digital transformation of defense acquisition. Read extended bio.

Career Highlights

• Served as assistant director for operational evaluation with the Institute for Defense Analyses
• Assistant dean for research, Virginia Tech College of Science
• Member, Virginia Commonwealth Cyber Initiative