Lieutenant Colonel Erin J. Maurer is the CBRN Defense Lead, J3 Force Protection Directorate, at NATO Joint Force Command Brunssum, The Netherlands, a position she has held since July 2024.

LTC Maurer enlisted in the United States Army Reserves in 2004, and upon graduating from Penn State University in 2008, commissioned as a Second Lieutenant through the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), branched Chemical Corps. Her assignments include: Brigade Chemical Officer, Company Executive Officer, and Forward Operating Base Operations Officer, for 4^th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3^rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Georgia; Headquarters Company Commander, Support Battalion, 1^st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne); AFRICOM/EUCOM Desk Officer, United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC); Operations Officer, and Battalion Executive Officer, Special Troops Battalion, 528^th Sustainment Brigade (Special Operations) (Airborne); U.S. Army Exchange Officer to the United Kingdom’s Defence CBRN Centre, Winterbourne Gunner, United Kingdom.

LTC Maurer holds a Master Degree in Strategic Security, from the Joint Special Operations program at the National Defense University, completed in 2019, with a defended thesis focused on military response to nuclear terrorism. She has deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn.