Dr. Teresa Clement leads the University and Small Business Partnerships (USBP) team of engineers focused on technical teaming and transitioning innovations into Raytheon products. These insertions of technology innovations from universities and small businesses enable Raytheon to meet future tech needs imperative to our defense of freedom around the world. Teresa’s team at Raytheon invests funds from internal research and development (IRAD), strategic overhead initiatives, licensing and capital investment and other areas to amplify the funds our partners receive on SBIRs/STTRs, venture, and other governmental agency funding. She also guides and conducts internal research and development efforts demonstrating the small-business innovations to Raytheon program offices.
Teresa engages her technical expertise in advanced manufacturing by serving as the Governance Board Representative from Raytheon in America Makes: the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute. She chaired the Executive Committee for America Makes (2015-2017) and led the America Makes Roadmap Advisory Group (2013-2016), while also simultaneously co-chairing the AIAA sub-committee on Additive Manufacturing within the Emerging Technology Committee.
Having previously worked as the Corporate Technology Area Director for Mechanical, Materials and Structures in Raytheon Corporate Technology & Research (2012-2013), Dr. Clement maintains strong ties across Raytheon, industry, and government to enable all forms of advanced technology insertion into the defense communities. Her specific areas of expertise include additive manufacturing, microelectronics, and nanotechnology. She uses systems-based engineering approaches to address critical technology gaps and overcome insertion barriers. She received her PhD in Materials Science Engineering from Arizona State University for research describing the CVD synthesis of Silicon and Germanium nanowires and nanowire heterostructures. Teresa began working for Raytheon in May 2007 for the Land Combat product line as a Process Engineer where she resolved material and process-related manufacturing issues across seven individual product lines. Teresa has also held the position of Value Stream Manager and Lead Process Engineer in Raytheon’s Composites factory engineering and fabricating optical materials for low-cost missile domes; there she also served as control/cost account manager for three manufacturing areas in the Composites factory.