Ms. Alexandra “Sandy” Landsberg

Ms. Landsberg is the acting Department Head for Command, Control, Computing, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (C5ISRT) at the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The C5ISRT Department is responsible for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology in electronic warfare, sensors and surveillance, electronics, quantum information systems, navigation, communication and networking, full spectrum cyber, artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, mathematics for analytics and predictive science, battle management aids, and tools for decision superiority.

Ms. Landsberg entered the Senior Executive Service in 2019 when she joined ONR as the Division Director of the Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences Division in the C5ISRT Department where she oversees basic research, applied research, and advanced technology developments in computational methods, data science, decision tools, cyber security, command and control, and communications and networking to enable rapid, accurate decision-making addressing the needs of the Department of the Navy.

Concurrently, Ms. Landsberg is a co-lead for the AI and Autonomy Focus Area, where her efforts have been instrumental in identifying and championing critical research areas, such as adversarial AI. Ms. Landsberg also serves as the United States representative to the NATO Systems Concept and Integration Panel focused on systems of systems, directed energy, electronic warfare, cyber effects, space and autonomy.

Prior to joining ONR, Ms. Landsberg served as the Deputy Director and Acting Director for the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program, providing strategic leadership and delivering critical supercomputing and networking capabilities across the research and development enterprise. Her extensive career in federal service also includes managing foundational computational mathematics research at the Department of Energy, overseeing knowledge discovery and risk assessment research at the Department of Homeland Security, and leading weapons effects modeling as a subject matter expert and branch head. She began her career as a research engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory, where she developed foundational computational physics methods.

Ms. Landsberg received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in aerospace engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed graduate studies in computational science and informatics at George Mason University.

Ms. Landsberg has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Department of the Army Meritorious Civilian Service Award and the Department of the Army Commander’s Award for Civilian Service.