Barbara Sanderson, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF, (Ret), currently serves on the Defense Intel Alumni Association Board of Directors.
Barbara is a retired member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service with more than 33 years in the intelligence community. At DIA she served as Vice Deputy Director MASINT and Technical Collection. She is also a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve.
Prior to her government career Sanderson worked for the Columbia University Electronics Research Laboratory from 1965 to 1967.
She has been the corporate director intelligence programs at the Northrop Grumman Corporation since 2008.
Sanderson has a Bachelor of Science degree from Columbia Engineering (1965) and has performed graduate work in electrical engineering there and in National Security Policy at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. She has been chairman of the Advanced Technical Intelligence Association (ATIA) for five years and a member of the AFCEA Intelligence Committee.
