Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show Linda Burger - Director, Office of Research and Technology Applications - U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) - Advancing Breakthroughs At The Intersection Of National Security And Economic Development
Linda Burger is Director of the Office of Research and Technology Applications ( https://www.nsa.gov/Research/Technology-Transfer-Program/Research-and-Technology-Applications/ ), at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) where her team is focused on accelerating and improving the exchange of expertise between NSA and other government agencies, academia, and industry, to ultimately hasten national research breakthroughs. She has been with the ORTA program since 2011, serving as director since 2014. Prior to NSA, Ms. Burger previously worked in the economic development offices in Howard and Frederick counties and launched her own IT consulting firm providing management consulting to hundreds of emerging technology companies in Maryland. Recently, in addition to her NSA role, Ms. Burger was elected to serve as the Federal Laboratory Consortium ( FLC - https://federallabs.org/ ) Executive Board Chair, the highest elected position of that organization, which represents more than 300 federal laboratories, agencies, and research centers. Ms. Burger has a BS in Information Systems Management from University of Maryland Baltimore County, and a Master's in Management from The Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School. The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign and domestic intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, specializing in a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). The NSA is also tasked with the protection of U.S. communications networks and information systems. The NSA has roughly 32,000 employees.