Danielle P. Hilliard

Dr. Danielle P. Hilliard is an aerospace systems engineer and supervisor of the Concept Design and Realization Branch in APL’s Research and Exploratory Development Department. Her branch provides an array of engineering, design, and fabrication capabilities that broadly support the Laboratory’s mission and sponsored work. In this role, she enables the development of manufacturing science and realizes this capability in the form of spacecraft and Department of Defense hardware. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Hilliard has worked on systems engineering solutions for hardware and software capabilities for the U.S. Navy and the Missile Defense Agency, among other U.S. agencies.