Dr. Barbara Sorensen has over 25 years of experience in advanced technology development spanning multiple disciplines. She earned her doctorate and master’s degrees at the University of Iowa while performing research and teaching in a multidisciplinary program. She is currently a program manager and strategic advisor to the Warfighter Readiness commander for the design and development of basic, exploratory and applied research and development programs in advanced aircrew, command & control, and space training; as well as simulation and interoperability research. She manages programs and integrates applications of state-of-the-art features to design technologically advanced biomedical, survivability and space-based capabilities to support information dominance, air superiority, mission rehearsal, distributed mission operations, situational awareness, and modeling and simulation. She also designs and develops educational courseware and web accessible applications to support training and readiness environments for space operators, warfighters, and support personnel in performing more efficiently and effectively through high fidelity, multi-role, interactive training mission rehearsal, and weapon system integration, and to advance the concept of operations. Dr. Sorensen is a focal point for Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) advanced training, readiness and simulation research for worldwide integration.