Cindy Williams
MEMBER SINCE: 1997
Cindy Williams is a Research Affiliate of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a Principal Research Scientist until her retirement in 2013. Her interests include budgets and budgeting for national security and the capabilities and personnel practices of armed forces in North America and Europe. Formerly she was an Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office, where she led the National Security Division. Dr. Williams served as a director and in other capacities at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts; as a member of the Senior Executive Service in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; and as a mathematician at RAND.
History of Employment
Position
Division
Organization
Start
End
Research Affiliate
Security Studies Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013
Present
Senior Fellow and Principal Research Scientist
Security Studies Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Assistant Director
National Security Division
Congressional Budget Office
Director
C2 Integration Environment
The MITRE Corporation
Associate Technical Director
Continental Command, Control, and Communications Division
The MITRE Corporation
Department Head
Strategic Air Command Systems Department
The MITRE Corporation
Associate Department Head
Strategic Defense Initiative
The MITRE Corporation
Director
Strategic Offensive Forces Division, Program Analysis and Evaluation, Office of the Secretary
U.S. Department of Defense
Operations Analyst
U.S. Department of Defense
Mathematician
Strategic Forces Project
RAND Corporation
Project Leader, Force Operations Team
Automated Wargaming Center
RAND Corporation
Primary Sector of Expertise
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