Carol Staubach

Carol Staubach is a Senior Executive Advisor. Previously she was Senior Vice President serving the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)-National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) market. She joined Booz Allen Hamilton in December 2003 as a principal focusing on the NRO market, and she was promoted to vice president in October 2006. Ms. Staubach came to Booz Allen in 2003 after 33 years in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the last fifteen of which were spent on detail to the National Reconnaissance Office. Her last assignment in the NRO, from August 2001 to July 2003, was as Director, Imagery Systems Acquisitions and Operations (IMINT), charged with acquiring and operating the nation’s classified imagery satellites. In this capacity, she managed a budget of billions of dollars per year with multiple simultaneous satellite developments. She also managed the operations of NRO imagery satellites in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist strikes. From 2000-2001, Ms. Staubach served as the Director, Advanced Systems and Technology (AS&T) where she managed the NRO space technology research program. She supervised more than 150 contracts, which covered a wide range of innovative technologies. Other NRO assignments included Director of the Ground Systems Program Office, SIGINT, where Ms. Staubach planned and acquired a Ground Merged Architecture for the SIGINT ground stations which reported to her. Also, she directed a SIGINT Satellite Program Office, and ran the largest Imagery Ground Station. She has extensive satellite and ground acquisition experience and satellite operations experience. Her CIA assignments included management of systems programming for CIA main computer systems, installation of data communications services for the new CIA Headquarters Building, and instruction in computer languages and operating systems. Ms. Staubach was awarded the CIA Distinguished Service Medal, the NRO Gold Medal, the NRO Director’s Circle Award, the 2002 National Space Club Charyk Award, and the 2006 Women in Aerospace Lifetime Achievement Award. She is an elected member of the AFCEA Intelligence Committee, a member of the AIAA and INSA associations, and a member of the NGA Advisory Group. She is also on the Board of Directors of Women in Aerospace and of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education. Ms. Staubach has a degree in Mathematics, Physics and Secondary Education from the University of Pittsburgh, and has done graduate study in Mathematics at Pitt and in Engineering Administration at George Washington University.