Tracee Gilbert

Tracee Gilbert is the Founder and CEO of System Innovation, which is an engineering services, technology, and management consulting company. Gilbert has over 25 years of experience leading large-scale initiatives and driving strategy and implementation for digital engineering, engineering research, and engineering programs across various domains. She has held various leadership positions at Lockheed Martin, MITRE, Engility, SAIC and served as a fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowship (STPF) at Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD). Gilbert was the contractor lead and chief architect of the DoD Digital Engineering concept and strategy. She also led the initial implementation efforts across the military services, industry, and academia in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.  

Gilbert received her B.A. (Physics, Minor in Math and Japanese) from Lincoln University. She studied abroad with the Institute for the International Education of Students in Tokyo, Japan where she worked as an editor for Tokyo Classifieds. She received her M.S. (Systems Engineering) and Ph.D. (Industrial and Systems Engineering) from Virginia Tech. She is the chair of the AAAS STPF Advisory Committee and is a board member of the George Mason University Mechanical Engineering Board, the Morgan State University Engineering Executive Council, and the American Institute of Physics TEAM-UP Together Campaign Committee.