Barbara Estes, on being a Working Mom for a Decade, then Unemployed, then achieving her dream of working for the Air Force

Barbara Estes is an All-Source Intelligence Analyst for the United States Air Force, National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Mrs. Estes served as the Chairman of the Weapons and Space Intelligence Committee (WSSIC), Electronic Warfare Systems Subcommittee (EWSS), 2018-2021, and was Head of Delegation (HOD) for Electronic Warfare Radar Intelligence Exchange (EWRIE) under the Chiefs of Scientific and Technical Intelligence (CSTI) program. To mitigate strategic surprise and risk, Mrs. Estes leads intelligence community (IC) collaboration on simultaneous ongoing research efforts to deliver all-source intelligence analysis and products to drive policy makers, acquisition customers, and operators to modify doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and system designs to improve U.S. survivability in threat environments. Mrs. Estes, a native of Cheyenne, Wyoming, began her Air Force career upon graduation from Advanced Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), Dayton, Ohio. With twelve  years of intelligence analysis experience, customers recognize her as a subject matter expert on PACOM and EUCOM adversary deception capabilities across the information spectrum. Resides with her spouse, Mr. Jay Estes in Beavercreek, Ohio, and their son, Jace and daughter, Ani.