Risa Gorospe is a systems engineering professional at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). She has worked various roles in systems engineering that span the systems engineering lifecycle such as requirements development, modeling and simulation, and integration and test. She is currently a lead systems engineering analyst providing thought leadership in digital engineering while supporting missile defense and other government sponsors. She has a Bachelors in Computer Engineering from Villanova University, a Masters in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University and is an INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP).