Ashleigh Coker is the program lead for Cyber-physical Exploitation for Disaster and Emergency Response (CEDER) and also the lead collaborator in the multi-AFRL Directorate AF Marathon Support team. She is a part of a multidisciplinary team working on innovative approaches to using Edge Devices for mobile target detection and base defense.
Currently, she leverages her unique background as ISR airborne intelligence & maintenance veteran with 1500+ combat flying hours, former economics professor specializing in game theory and econometrics, and 5 years’ experience on AFRL technical programs to advise research universities, intelligence agencies, and federal laboratories on military resourcing, near-peer capabilities, and technological requirements for DOD missions from an operational perspective.