Kathy Trimble

Kathy Trimble is a national security strategist and analytic leader with more than two decades spent at the intersection of technology, policy, and industry building the frameworks that shape how the U.S. government thinks about strategic competition, emerging technology, and long-range defense planning.

As Director of Strategic Assessments for the U.S. Space Force, she leads the analytic function driving long-range strategic planning and decision-making at the highest levels. In this role she will leverage her prior experience building up the same capability at Headquarters Air Force. Her work sits at the center of how the national security enterprise anticipates and prepares for competitive environments.

Ms. Trimble has repeatedly been entrusted to launch and lead new strategic functions from the ground up. As Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Office of Commercial and Economic Analysis (OCEA), she shaped the government's approach to geoeconomics and the growing overlap between economic and security policy. Earlier, as Vice President at the Council on Competitiveness, she directed national initiatives on innovation, technology, and industrial competitiveness, working across government, industry, and academia to advance U.S. competitiveness.

Her career reflects a rare span across sectors: senior roles across multiple Department of Defense offices focused on advanced and emerging capabilities, more than a decade in the aerospace industry building deep technical and industrial-base expertise, and now a growing body of work educating the next generation of national security leaders as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University.

Ms. Trimble is a Distinguished Graduate of the Eisenhower School at the National Defense University (M.S., National Resource Strategy), a Seminar XXI Fellow at MIT, and holds a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.