Lieutenant Colonel Alicia Burrows is a US Army 2024-2025 Fellow at MIT's Security Studies Program and Lincoln Laboratory. She enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve in 2001, completed basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, and accepted an ROTC scholarship through the University Maine – Orono. She was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Signal Corps in 2004 after graduating from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies and played basketball. In 2012, she received a Master’s of Business Administration from the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA. She graduated from resident Command and General Staff College in June 2015 as an Art of War Scholar with a Masters in Military Arts and Sciences.

Her previous assignments include: Director, Theater Contracting Center/409th Contracting Support Brigade, Kaiserslautern, Germany; DCMA Philadelphia Chief of Mission Support and Deputy Director of Contracts, Philadelphia, PA; Assistant Executive Officer, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics & Technology), Pentagon;  Contracting Officer, DLA Troop Support, Philadelphia, PA; Battalion S3/XO, 925th Contracting Battalion, Team Leader, 619th Contingency Contracting Team, Fort Drum, NY; Staff Officer, LandWarNet, Army Capability Integration Center, TRADOC, Fort Monroe, VA; S6/Electronic Warfare Officer, 28th Transportation Battalion, Mannheim, Germany; Node Center Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer, Charlie Company, 32nd Signal Battalion, Darmstadt, Germany. LTC Burrows’ deployments include combat deployments to Iraq (October 2005 –October 2006) and Kuwait (March 2008 – June 2009). 

She is a member of the National Contract Management Association and an Honor Graduate of the Contract Management Leadership Development Program. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Federal Contract Manager (CFCM). She also serves on the Board of Trustees for her high school, a private co-educational boarding school in New Hampshire.