“I am honored to bring my autonomy & artificial intelligence experience from the defense industry, academia, and government service into the CTO role focused on research & development, strategy, and academic community engagement,” Allen said in a LinkedIn post published Sunday.
In this capacity and as part of the chief strategy office, she will oversee the development of technical strategy for Saab Inc., lead research community engagement efforts and prioritize and meet research and development objectives with a focus on launching AI, machine learning and autonomous systems across the portfolio.
As chief scientist at Saab Inc., Allen co-founded the autonomous and undersea systems division and helped capture cooperative research and development initiatives with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research.
Prior to Saab Inc., she was special activities exploitation technical area leader for FAST Labs at BAE Systems, leading a directorate of engineers and scientists with expertise in the field of AI/ML and predictive analytics.
Allen also served as a company commander within the Army National Guard and a project manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
