Kimberly Chamblin, Ph.D. is the Director of Government at Boston Dynamics. She serves as Chair of the CBRNE Industry Group. Prior to joining Boston Dynamics, Kim was the CBRN Business Development and Category Manager for ADS, Inc. Kim is passionate about CBRN threat mitigation and emergency response. Prior to joining ADS, Kim worked for Lockheed Martin as a Legislative Affairs Consultant to the J1/8 and in the J5 at U.S. Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany. Kim proudly served as a GS14 at the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office from 2006-2008. She started her federal career at the Department of Energy/NNSA after graduating with an M.A.I.A. from American University in 2001. She holds a Ph.D in Organizational Leadership from the University of Oklahoma (2016), and her dissertation, “A case study of a radiation detection equipment program: Do the advocacy coalition framework and the issue attention cycle inform Congressional budget decisions?" addresses the challenges that face decision makers who allocate resources and drive budgets related to complex technical equipment.