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Tara Kilcullen is the Training and Readiness Accelerator (TReX) Director. In her role, she works closely with government, industry, and academia to foster collaborative opportunities and enable innovative driven partnerships. Tara has over 18 years of experience working in the MS&T industry. With over 15 years of experience working for small businesses, Tara brings with her an extensive background in leadership, engineering, customer development, and management as well as considerable experience leading and managing engineering cross-functional teams. Tara’s experience extends from end to end business strategy and execution to project design, development, and delivery. Her professional experience has had a substantial focus on design and development of military training and simulation as well as data collection and analyses for both military and commercial systems. She also has experience implementing and driving agile principles and process improvements within engineering organizations, resulting in better internal metrics and numerous efficiencies in project planning, organization, execution, and quality.