Charles Clancy, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Technology and Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer
Charles Clancy is MITRE’s chief technology officer and senior vice president for technology and engineering. In this role, he leads delivery of technical capabilities and solutions to the six federally funded research and development centers MITRE operates on behalf of the U.S. government. He is also responsible for leading MITRE’s technical workforce, technology strategy, independent research and development, laboratory infrastructure, technology transition, industry and academic partnerships, extramural grants, and research consortia.
Before joining MITRE in 2019 as vice president for intelligence programs, Clancy served as the Bradley Distinguished Professor of Cybersecurity in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech and as executive director of the Hume Center for National Security and Technology. There, he led Virginia Tech’s research and experiential learning programs in defense and intelligence. He started his career at the National Security Agency, filling a variety of research and engineering roles, with a focus on wireless communications.
He was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his work in information security and digital communications. He has co-authored more than 250 academic publications and patents, as well as six books. He co-founded five venture-backed defense-tech startup companies that apply commercial innovation to the intersection of telecommunications and national security.
Clancy sits on advisory boards for several defense-focused university centers, including the Systems Engineering Research Center, the Research Institute for Tactical Autonomy, and the Virginia Tech National Security Institute. Additionally, he is a council member for the National Academies Government-University-Industry-Philanthropy Research Roundtable.
Clancy holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a doctorate in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park.
