CIR Advisory Panel Board Member

Dr. Maria N.(Niki) Goerger currently serves as the Special Assistant for Modeling & Simulation and Analysis to the Director of the Information Technology Laboratory at ERDC.

During her career, she has led many Army and DoD programs to advance technology and enable innovation and has served in liaison positions, including in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology. She was the first ERDC Director for Business Development and stood-up the ERDC Strategic Integration Office.

Dr. Goerger’s awards include the Army’s Wilbur H. Payne Award for Excellence in Analysis; the Society for American Military Engineers’ Technology Advancement Medal; the International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems’ Sohne-Hata-Jurecak Award for Excellence in Research; the Women of Color Government Career Achievement Award; the ERDC Herbert D. Vogel Award for Outstanding Engineer; and four ERDC R&D awards.

She is a Fellow of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS) and previously served on the MORS Board of Directors. She is a member of the Advisory Panel for the Texas A&M Center for Infrastructure Renewal and holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (Operations Research and Stochastic Processes) from Texas A&M University