As Army Applications Laboratory’s executive director, Dr. Casey Perley leads the mission to reshape how the Army works with industry to provide the best tech in the world to the best Army in the world. Her vision is for AAL to work from problem inception to sustainment hand in glove with stakeholders across the Army and the Department of Defense to accelerate and assess the Army’s ability to ingest innovation.

Casey knows AAL better than anyone, having served most recently as the deputy director and before that as the first director of Insights and Analysis, where our scientists and entrepreneurs collaborate to bring the best companies and technologies into solving Army problems.

Prior to AAL, Casey was a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), where she managed research projects across a range of topics and stakeholders. She even designed DNA vaccines and worked in the lab with bio threats including Ebola! Casey holds a PhD in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology from Duke University and a BS in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University.

In her spare time, Casey plays the harp. Her work can be heard on more than 120 live and studio recordings, one of which was nominated for two Grammy awards!