Terese Manley joined PSCR’s Open Innovation team in 2017 and is the Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) Portfolio Lead. In this role, she manages internal and external R&D 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/local first responders, industry experts, and academia to establish goals for the UAS Portfolio. Prior to PSCR, Terese was an industry liaison for the Interdisciplinary Telecom Graduate Program at CU Boulder where she brought industry experts together with faculty and students and, 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 & 500 companies. Terese holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.