Tackling pressing national security challenges is Andrée Rose’s passion as Project Director at The Defense Personnel and Security Research Center (PERSEREC), a Department of Defense (DoD) entity dedicated to improving the effectiveness, efficiency and fairness of DoD personnel suitability, security and reliability systems. Rose is also a member of The Threat Lab, DoD’s counter-insider threat program that integrates social and behavioral sciences into the counter-insider threat mission space and meets the research, training and education needs of the global counter-insider threat community.
But the DoD wasn’t where Rose thought she’d end up when she was pursing her college degree. “I always thought I would become a probation officer or work in some other role in the criminal justice system,” Rose says. However, after completing her double major in criminal justice and sociology and then a Master’s in Public Administration at Cal State Fullerton and a Master’s in Criminal Justice at SUNY Albany, Rose was hired as a research analyst for Northrop Grumman.