KNEW

Frankie Denise King is the Assistant Director of the Annapolis Technical Coordination Project Office at Vanderbilt University's Institute for Software Integrated Systems (VU-ISIS), where she is responsible for managing the coordination of collaborative R&D activities on the Cyber-Physical Systems-Virtual Organization that are sponsored by Federal agencies belonging to the Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD) Program. Before joining VU-ISIS, King served as the Technical Coordinator for the High Confidence Software and Systems (HCSS) Program Component Area (PCA) at the National Coordination Office (NCO) for NITRD for nearly seven years. Ms. King has over twenty-eight years of program development and management experience in domestic and international policy affairs where she has served in high-level capacities in the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government and the private sector. Ms King's work experience spans several domains, including the areas of information technology R&D, economics, agriculture, trade, and foreign assistance. Ms. King received an MA degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1984, and a BA degree from Fisk University in 1983, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.