The Honorable Kari A. Bingen is the Director of the Aerospace Security Project and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Her interests lie at the intersection of national security policy and technology. Kari served as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security after being unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. She was the policy director on the House Armed Services Committee and staff lead for its Strategic Forces subcommittee. While Chief Strategy Officer at HawkEye 360 she gained firsthand experience in the startup ecosystem, and earlier in her career specialized as a space system analyst. 
Kari is passionate about “paying it forward” as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. She is a member of the U.S. National Intelligence University Board of Visitors and serves on a number of corporate and non-profit advisory boards. She is an aerospace engineering graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.