Mitzi Williams
Ms. Williams is presently the Director of National Intelligence, Security and Response’s (NISR) Center for Scientific and Technical Support. She is the program manager for SPC’s Scientific, Engineering, and Technical Assistance (SETA) contracts to the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ) Office of Science and Technology (OS&T), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the Office of Domestic Preparedness’ (ODP) System Support Division (SSD), and the Department of Commerce in the National Institute of Standards & Technology’s (NIST) Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES). She serves as the NIJ point-of-contact for the Technology Policy Council (TPC), the annual Technologies for Public Safety in Critical Incident Response Conference and Exposition, and the Force Protection Equipment Demonstration (FPED). She also provides the weekly inputs for OS&T to the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and supports the Director and Deputy Director of OS&T. She joined SPC in December of 1996.
Ms. Williams was the Director for the Bio-Technology Center at SPC and program manager for the SETA support to the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). She was responsible for as many as thirteen full time SPC employees who provided SETA support to the DSO Director, Deputy Director, Assistant Director for Program Management, and five Program Managers primarily in the area of Biological Warfare Defense (BWD). Ms. Williams provided onsite SETA support at DARPA for almost thirteen years. She was a Program Research Analyst to Bosnia C2 Augmentation Initiative and functioned as a point of contact for survey teams traveling to USEUCOM to deploy the C2 augmentation equipment; and for over 5 years, presided over all programmatic areas in a variety of programs for the DARPA Counterdrug, Operations Other Than War (OOTW), and Operations Other Than War/Law Enforcement (OOTW/LE) programs. She supported the first DARPA chairman of the Joint Program Steering Group (JPSG) that was formed as a result of the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in April 1994 between the Department of Defense (DoD) and DOJ; and assisted the program manager through interaction with DOJ, NIJ, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Bureau of Prisons, and other agencies in evaluating and assessing the needs and transfer of technology to the law enforcement community for use by federal, state, and local officials. Her first assignment at DARPA in 1988 was a Program Assistant providing onsite SETA support to the DARPA Naval Technology Office (NTO).
Ms. Williams has a Top Secret Clearance and obtained her B.A. in Speech/Drama at Shorter College, in Rome, GA, 1967.
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