Christine Rink is the Associate Deputy Director for Microelectronics Assurance Standards for OUSD (R&E) Modernization.  She has over twenty years of experience in the design and development of microelectronics and has worked in hardware assurance for more than a decade.  Prior to joining the OUSD (R&E) team, Christine served as the ASIC lead for a high-volume, ASIC focused DoD program. She has successfully enabled state of the art microelectronics access for programs by developing approaches to reconcile program technology needs with DoD trust policy and export control regulation. 

Christine holds a BS in biomedical and electrical engineering and a MS in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California.