Terese Manley

Terese Manley has served as the Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) Portfolio Lead for the Open Innovation team within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Public Safety Communications Research Division (NIST PSCR) since 2017. In this role, she manages internal and external research and development for UAS research and prize challenge management to advance PSCR's mission in UAS as a deployable for public safety. She actively engages external researchers and working groups including federal agencies, state and local first responders, industry experts, and academia to establish goals for the UAS Portfolio. Prior to NIST PSCR, Terese was an industry liaison for the Interdisciplinary Telecom Graduate Program at University of Colorado Boulder where she brought industry experts together with faculty and students. For much of her career, Terese held management and engineering positions at Sprint Nextel Corporation in Sales Engineering, managing technical teams to provide wireline and wireless solutions to Fortune 100 and 500 companies. Terese holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.