Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: ECS’ Marshall Thames
Marshall Thames Senior Vice President of Mission Solutions, ECS The prime contractor for the Defense Department’s premier AI effort Project Maven, ECS is spearheading analytics and AI efforts across the services, combatant commands and intelligence community — all under Marshall Thames’ direction. Executing AI programs in all domains, from space to seafloor to cyber, Thames
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: Microsoft Federal’s Jason Payne
Jason Payne CTO, Microsoft Federal As CTO at Microsoft Federal, Jason Payne’s mission is to accelerate the adoption of data, analytics and artificial intelligence across the U.S. federal government to enable missions, enhance citizen services and strengthen national security. His responsibilities include leading strategy development, breaking down barriers to adoption, creating digital infrastructure and scaling
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: Booz Allen’s John Larson
John Larson Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence, Booz Allen As AI is rapidly transforming the world, John Larson’s leadership has been instrumental in establishing Booz Allen’s position as the leading provider of AI services to the federal government. With over 200 active AI projects across critical areas like national security, health and defense, Booz
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: ICF’s Anna Belova
Anna Belova Senior Data Science Advisor, ICF Anna Belova’s most notable recent achievement involved her contribution at ICF to the development of new U.S. national drinking water standards targeting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly known as “forever chemicals.” These chemicals are widely used in various commercial and industrial products and pose significant environmental and health
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: GDIT’s Dave Vennergrund
Dave Vennergrund Vice President for AI and Data Insights, GDIT Dave Vennergrund’s most notable recent accomplishment involved collaborating with a highly skilled team from both inside and outside GDIT to select AI projects for production. To facilitate this, they conducted a detailed survey of federal leaders about deploying AI safely. The resulting research report, “AI
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: Redhorse Corp.’s Brian Sacash
Brian Sacash Director of Data Science, Redhorse Corp. Brian Sacash’s biggest recent achievement was engaging with technology partners to bring the most cutting-edge AI capabilities to the mission space. But rather than simply implementing the latest off-the-shelf solutions, his team is pioneering custom approaches that seamlessly blend this advanced technology to redefine the role of
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: ManTech’s Brandy Durham
Brandy Durham Vice President of Global AI Practice, ManTech Brandy Durham and her team are enthusiastic about the recent launch of ManTech’s Data Analytics and AI Solutions Practice. Positioned to assist U.S. federal clients, the team combines the expertise of AI subject matter experts and mission specialists to operationalize data and improve decision-making against national
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: Intel Corp.’s Melvin Greer
Melvin Greer Fellow & Chief Data Scientist, Intel Corp. Melvin Greer’s biggest recent achievement was winning the Black Engineer of the Year, Technologist of the Year award. It changed the trajectory of his career. More than that, the Technologist of the Year award isn’t just an honor; it’s a torch. It ignited a fire in
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: AWS’ David Appel
David Appel Vice President of U.S. Federal, Amazon Web Services David Appel’s most significant recent achievement was assuming his current leadership position. Every day, he sees the direct impact of AWS technology, employees and partners on enabling customers across civilian, defense, financial and national security sectors to achieve their mission outcomes. His work with the
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: DHS’ Dave Larrimore
Dave Larrimore Chief Technology Officer, DHS Dave Larrimore’s biggest recent achievement was bringing the power of generative AI to over 4,000 DHS employees through developing and implementing a commercial generative AI program. What makes this really special is that the company packaged the program up and shared it to be usable by other federal agencies.
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: Battelle’s Denise Johnson
Denise Johnson Vice President for Health Research and Analytics, Battelle Denise Johnson, a seasoned executive with over two decades of experience, leads a team dedicated to advancing science to protect against public health threats, support quality patient care, drive health equity, and improve health outcomes. Their key activities include using AI and machine learning to
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: Akima’s Barry Smallwood
Barry Smallwood President of Emerging Markets Group, Akima One of Barry Smallwood’s most significant achievements is working to ensure Akima’s customers are not only technically ready for AI adoption, but culturally ready as well. Akima worked closely with a major government agency to integrate AI into its customer relationship strategies, with a focus on technically
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: BlueHalo’s Benjamin Bachrach
Benjamin Bachrach Senior Vice President, Office of the CTO, BlueHalo Ben Bachrach’s strategic vision and innovative approach helped shape BlueHalo’s Internal Research and Development program and drove product innovation through research and development. His AI/ML focus began with his career at BlueHalo over 20 years ago, when he foresaw the need for advanced machine vision,
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: Absolute Business Solutions Corp.’s Darin Powers
Darin Powers CEO, Absolute Business Solutions Corp. With over two decades of expertise in behavioral analytics, Darin Powers spearheads a targeted strategy at ABSC to amplify the company’s ability to protect both people and technology. The most significant AI milestone to date was the creation of an initial foundation for AI-centric pathways within the Chief
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: Maximus’ Kathleen Featheringham
Kathleen Featheringham Vice President of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning – Federal, Maximus A little more than a year after joining Maximus, Kathleen Featheringham’s impact has been felt across the company’s federal business as her experience coincided with an explosion of interest in the technology. “For years, Maximus has been a leader in federal technology,
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: SAIC’s Andy Henson
Andy Henson Senior Vice President of Digital Innovation, SAIC Andy Henson recently rolled out a comprehensive AI strategy for SAIC with a governance council and executive steering committee. This initiative included embracing large language model adoption and rollout for all 25,000 SAIC employees and establishing an AI ethics office to govern the implementation of AI
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024
Artificial intelligence has moved from the realm of science fiction to bonafide disruptive ⏤ and transformative ⏤ technology. Don’t expect humanoids anytime soon, but the power of AI to enhance business and government is more about automation and streamlined processes than in bringing “The Terminator” to life. In fact, we already experience AI in various
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