LTC Jessica Dawson, Ph.D.

LTC Jessica Dawson is the Digital Force Protection Division chief and cyber research scientist at the Army Cyber Institute at the United States Military Academy. She is also an associate professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science with a Ph.D. from Duke University.

Her research focuses on the digital disruption of social processes and the use of narratives around military services, such as sacrifice narratives to influence changing views of patriotism and freedom since the Vietnam War. Additionally, her work studies the risks to the force associated with commercial data collection. 

LTC Dawson has briefed numerous senior leaders on the social media threat space that makes the Army more vulnerable and has written about the risks to the force from micro targeting and a lack of digital privacy.