Douglas Robbins

Douglas Robbins is vice president of the Center for Engineering and Analysis at MITRE. Leveraging world-class technical capabilities, solution platforms, and a multidisciplinary workforce, he leads MITRE's work in infrastructure, networking, and communications; systems engineering; modeling and analysis; signals and electronics, and emerging technologies. 

Robbins previously was vice president of MITRE's Air Force portfolio. He worked with Air Force senior leadership to set strategy and priorities that ensure MITRE delivered technical capabilities in support of Air Force mission objectives across command and control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; cyber defense and resiliency; and nuclear enterprise modernization.

Robbins also served as director of strategic development for MITRE's Bedford campus and New England operations. In that role, he executed a strategy focused on shifts in the company's work program, developed needed capabilities and engagement approaches with academia, and established partnerships within the Boston-area innovation ecosystem. 

He has directed the Enterprise Integration Division in MITRE's Command and Control Center, which focuses on developing enterprise-scale solutions in partnership with the Air Force, joint service warfighters, and coalition forces. Early in his career, Robbins held engineering leadership roles at MITRE locations in Massachusetts and New Jersey, and at ITT in Clifton, N.J.

Robbins earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maine and a master's degree from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1999. He also completed the General Management Program at Harvard Business School. Robbins serves on the board of the Massachusetts High Technology Council and the New England Council.