Diane Rose

Diane Rose is the president and chief executive officer of Insitu, the Bingen, Washington company that designs, develops and manufactures unmanned aircraft systems, including the ScanEagle, the Integrator and the RQ-21A Blackjack, and that operates as a subsidiary of The Boeing Company. She took over the top job on 31 March 2023 from Lynn Fox, who moved to a vice presidency on Boeing's KC-46 tanker program. Rose joined Insitu in 2018 and rose through its program organization, first as director of domestic programs and RQ-21A Blackjack program director, then as vice president of programs with executive oversight of every Insitu program. Before Insitu she spent thirteen years as a civil servant with the US Department of the Navy in senior program management and acquisition roles, and before that fourteen years in industry in software development and advanced technology integration for airborne surveillance platforms, having begun in naval aviation in the late 1980s as a McDonnell Douglas employee. She holds a master's degree in engineering systems from the Naval Postgraduate School and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from St. Mary's College of Maryland.