Todd Harbour
Managing Partner & CTO, Core4ce
Todd Harbour’s biggest recent achievement was leading the development of a data engineering solution that streamlines the data lifecycle for federal customers. Knowing analysts spend 80% of their time on prep and only 20% on insights, he and his team set out to reverse that. The result: a scalable, secure and customizable tool that quickly turns raw data into a strategic asset — and forms the core of a soon-to-be-announced commercial product.
“Todd’s ability to conceptualize and build solutions that support warfighting outcomes have positioned Core4ce to serve as a forward-leaning partner to our customers in an environment where federal modernization, efficiency and productivity are of utmost importance,” said Core4ce CEO Mike Morehouse, who co-founded the company in partnership with Harbour.
Why Watch
In 2025, Harbour’s team at The Forge, Core4ce’s innovation incubator, is building AI-powered business apps to streamline corporate workflows and support federal missions. Their work improves efficiency across proposal development, automates capability matching to government opportunities and uses an AI agent to align talent with the right customer contracts.
“At The Forge, we’re not just building tools, we’re shaping ideas into solutions that directly support national security missions,” Harbour said. “We’re focused on eliminating the hidden costs of data, so analysts can focus on what truly matters — turning data into actionable intelligence. We like to equate The Forge to the vigor of a blacksmith’s workshop, where we heat, hammer and harden promising ideas into scalable capabilities that deliver rapid, secure and lasting value to help solve national security challenges.”
Fun Fact: Harbour has written four books on strategic data leadership and spent his career helping the government understand the true value of data. He also climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.