Douglas Robbins

Douglas Robbins is vice president, Center for AI, Cyber, and Digital within MITRE Technology & Engineering. He oversees research and prototyping initiatives to accelerate new technologies and applied innovations for government sponsors across areas including autonomous cyber operations, frontier model evaluation, mission advancement with AI, and acquisition transformation.

He also plays a key role connecting MITRE with New England’s business, government, and innovation communities, and serves on the board of directors for the New England Council.

Robbins previously was vice president of the Center for Engineering and Analysis, leading MITRE’s work in infrastructure, networking, and communications; systems engineering; modeling and analysis; signals and electronics; and emerging technologies.

Before that, he was vice president of MITRE’s Air Force portfolio. He worked with Air Force senior leadership to set strategy and priorities that ensured 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, Mass., 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 directed the Enterprise Integration Division in MITRE’s Command and Control Center, which focused 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. He also completed the General Management Program at Harvard Business School.