Terry Benton Bollinger (born February 6, 1955) is an American computer scientist who works at the MITRE Corporation.

In 2003 he wrote an influential report for the U.S. Department of Defense (U.S. DoD) in which he showed that free and open source software (FOSS) had already become a vital part of the United States Department of Defense software infrastructure, and that banning or restricting its use would have had serious detrimental impacts on DoD security, research capabilities, operational capabilities, and long-term cost efficiency.

The report is referenced on the DoD CIO web site[2] and has been influential in promoting broader recognition of the importance of free and open source software in government circles.

He has written about a wide range of software issues including effective development processes, cyber security, and distributed intelligence.

He has had a lifelong interest in multi-component (crowd) intelligence as an aspect of artificial intelligence,[7] as well as a strong interest in the hard sciences, including the possible relevance of quantum theory to faster but fully classical, energy-efficient information processing in biological systems.