Anne Lord currently serves as the Vandenberg Coalition’s Government Affairs Manager. Prior to joining Vandenberg, she worked with Innovative Federal Strategies, a small defense-oriented firm, where she provided strategic policy research. Prior to her time with IFS, Anne received her Master’s in Strategic Studies from the University of St. Andrew’s in Scotland During her time at St. Andrew’s, Anne also served as a National Security Innovation Network X-Force Fellow where she worked with the I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group to explore private industry market research practices and their applicability to Information Operations and to develop an assessment framework for humanitarian response in Indonesia.