[1] Costa was the director of the Non-Traditional Information and Knowledge Exploitation Cell in Tampa, Florida from September 2001 to August 2010.

[1] In October 2018, Costa became the director of communications systems and the chief information officer of the United States Special Operations Command.

With over 95,000 users in over 140 countries, she was accountable for the technical portions of no fail missions for elite military units and operations.

She directly controlled and executed a >$1.2B per year budget which included global cloud infrastructure, mobility, satellite and terrestrial communications, and devsecops supporting just in time artificial intelligence at the edge.

[5] Costa is the recipient of the following awards:[1] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Government.