Dr. Casey Perley, Ph.D. - Executive Director, Army Applications Laboratory - From Startups To Soldiers - Scaling Dual-Use Technology For The U.S. Army

Dr. Casey Perley, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Army Applications Laboratory ( https://aal.mil/ ) where she leads the mission to reshape how the U.S. Army works with industry to provide the best tech in the world to the best Army in the world. Her vision is for AAL to work from problem inception to sustainment hand in glove with stakeholders across the Army and the Department of War to accelerate and assess the Army's ability to ingest innovation.

Dr. Perley previously served most recently as the deputy director of AAL and before that as the first director of Insights and Analysis, where their scientists and entrepreneurs collaborate to bring the best companies and technologies into solving Army problems. 

Prior to AAL, Dr. Perley was a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), where she managed research projects across a range of topics and stakeholders. She designed DNA vaccines and worked in the lab with bio threats including Ebola. 

Dr. Perley holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology from Duke University and a BS in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale.

Dr. Perley's is also an accomplished harpist, and her orchestral harp work can be heard on more than 120 recordings, one of which was nominated for two Grammy awards.

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