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National Security Network Participant
FDD’s National Security Fellow
2025
2025
National Security Network Participant
Sarah Lovell
U.S. Department of State
Biography
Last updated: Jan 15, 2025
Sarah Lovell is a Maryland Air National Guard cyber warfare officer currently assigned to the 175th Cyberspace Operations Squadron at Fort Meade, Md. Prior to joining the military, Capt. Lovell worked for two years as a contracted field engineer in Iraq and Afghanistan, including time with Special Operations Command. She spent nearly a decade as a public policy researcher at a federally funded research and development center and is now a security engineering officer with the State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security.