Gabrielle M. Nesburg

US Air Force Cyber Warfare Fellow, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology

Bio

Major Gabrielle Nesburg is the current United States Air Force Cyber Warfare Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Strategy & Technology. As a fellow, she contributes to innovative research focusing on the utilization of Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI to solve the most complex military intelligence problem sets and identify advanced sensor collection capabilities across the Department of Defense’s cyber and airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance enterprises.

A career intelligence officer, she has extensive experience integrating threat intelligence and defensive cyberspace operations across the Department of Defense. Major Nesburg was the cyber intelligence lead for the first defensive cyber task force to fuse threat intelligence, data analytics, and operational planning, where she drove the largest threat-focused defensive cyber hunt campaign in Air Force history. Additionally, she developed and implemented holistic cyber defense strategy to protect the $7B Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS), which provides timely and relevant operational intelligence to combat operations.

Most recently, as the Director of Operations for the 27th Intelligence Squadron, she pioneered automation, augmentation, and artificial intelligence solutions to facilitate data interoperability between the Air Force’s intelligence, targeting, and operations enterprises to enable near-real time dissemination of intelligence on adversary forces. She also deployed in support of Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, where she led the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Division, developing and directing the airborne intelligence collection strategy for a Joint Task Force operating across Iraq and Syria.

Major Nesburg graduated and received her commission from Texas Christian University in 2014. She also completed an intense Cyber Intelligence Experience Exchange Tour where she exceeded all cyberspace academic and operational requirements to become a qualified Cyberspace Operations Officer.