Jill S. Cochran

Ms. Cochran joined Areté’s Los Angeles office in 2003 straight out of graduate school at UCLA, where she was studying computational fluid dynamics. Ms. Cochran’s career at Areté quickly turned to field-testing of airborne electro-optical systems, where she began by developing software tools for system calibration and performance analysis and serving as a data acquisition system operator. Ms. Cochran currently holds management positions as the lead of the Scientific Computing Group, and Program Manager for Sagittarius, the largest program in the Intelligence Community Business Area.

She holds undergraduate degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh.