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🔑 Trust is the Foundation of Defense Partnerships 🔑 In the defense sector, trust is more critical than ever. As digital systems advance, ensuring data privacy and transparency is vital in maintaining strong partnerships. Through years of working with clients in defense manufacturing, I've seen firsthand how trust is the bedrock of successful collaborations. In today's high-stakes world, technology and trust go hand-in-hand—without both, you're leaving your business vulnerable. 👉 Read more about the importance of trust in defense at transform42inc.com #TrustInDefense #DefensePartnerships #Leadership #DigitalTransformation #TrustMatters #DefenseTech #StrongPartnerships

Balancing the strategic need to innovate in the face of Great Power Competition with maintaining system readiness and uptime isn't easy. DoD leaders must adopt emerging technology smartly and expeditiously, while also ensuring there is resiliency and redundancy in your ecosystem. Learn more about what we see making the greatest impact to Defense CIOs, and reach out to learn how to overcome these challenges.

“Innovation needs a career path. It needs permanency. It needs a seat at the table, a role in the DoD culture, and a Senior Champion (via that career path) in order to break the hurdles that Grant Tyson, Hinote and dozens of others have spotlighted.” We could not agree with Trish Martinelli anymore here. Is there a Chief Cultural Czar in our future? As a #NatSec community we continue to hone in and harp on the criticality of #humantalent and we have worked to create and #innovate around revised approaches to how we attract and activate requisite talent for todays threat environment. But the things we create like Direct Commissioning sound great on paper but are failing miserably in practice and execution for efforts to attract new talent from outside the force, and we still face all the issues of the Up or Out culture for talent within the force. When it comes to the #people side of the house what are we doing on the #CivilAffairs #FAO #InnovationOfficer side of the house as it pertains to culture. Is one large #PSYOP required to disrupt our own system to shake the tendrils of entrenched dogmatic lethargy, inefficiency and stagnated people policies free? Whose doing work around re-thinking how we, as a national security community, interact with the civilian populace to attract and activate the right talent (beyond revising conventional recruiting strategies)? Whose looking at next generation #FAO, #CIVAffairs and #innovationofficer training pipelines to include cultural shift dynamics and disruptive #intrapreneurial and #entrepreneurial approaches to coalition building to be applied both within and on the periphery of our force? #humantalent #cultureshift #whatsthehangup Nicholas Vandre Jay Long Clint Hinote Lauren Hansen-Armendariz Kris Saling Mike McGinley Jim Perkins Jer McKoy William Treseder Gapingvoid Culture Design Group Trish Martinelli Brad Halsey Jen Sovada Alexis B. Justin Fanelli W. Ethan Eagle🔴🟡 Chaveso Cook, Ph.D. Nicholas Krohley, Ph.D. Raphael Hernandez Timothy T.

Technology leaders face challenges that require more than technical expertise—they demand a strategic mindset. Drawing lessons from the battlefield, CIOs and CTOs can adopt proven military strategies to navigate complexity, protect their organizations, and deliver transformative results. In this article from THG Advisors they discuss how these time-tested principles can guide you in leading, organizing, planning, and executing your vision. You can read the article here. https://lnkd.in/eWcBKhc4

Helping answer this question, and the peace of mind that comes from knowing.

"If you don't like problems, stay out of leadership." ~ General James Mattis In honor of the Marine's 249th birthday, I wanted to talk about risk and Innovation. Risk hits different in the United States Department of Defense, and it should. The people in #uniform, the people who support them in #civilservice, and others who love and support them sign a blank check that may cost them their lives and hope it never gets cashed. The risk is real. Going back to the kinds of risk that Innovation needs in the #DoD in order for it to be a thing that takes hold outside of the #Beltway, #labs, and Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) I am reminded of the words of Adam Grant before Congress, @Neil deGrasse Tyson while on the Defense Innovation Board, and Clint Hinote at the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum annual summit in 2023 all of which zeroed in #culture being a higher hurtle to Innovation than any policy or regulation. What we have here is the fear of reputational risk - being labeled the "good idea fairy" - or another pejorative that is keeping some of the best ideas in the back pockets of the Department's most loyal and disruptive thinkers. How would having a #J10 mediate this? If a Command knew what to expect in terms of disruptive thinking in support of mission accomplishment, might it be more welcome? This is not so new..... think about Red Teamers and the sadly bygone #UFMCS (University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies) but this has always been tucked into "special staff". If one Commander had a taste for it, the discipline flourished. If the next Commander didn't, it died. Innovation needs a career path. It needs permanency. It needs a seat at the table, a role in the DoD culture, and a Senior Champion (via that career path) in order to break the hurdles that Grant, Tyson, Hinote and dozens of others have spotlighted. Kourtney Hiser, PMP Brian Cook Julie Vida General David H. Petraeus, US Army (Ret.) Marryam Chaudhry Milford Beagle, Jr ("Beags") Michael Nemerouf W. Ethan Eagle🔴🟡 Kyle Palko Jade Baranski Chris O'Donnell Roger Misso Greg Lewis Alexis B. Wendy Walsh- EdD, MPA, MEP Gary Lehmann Lesley Wilhelm Ryan Hilger Alex Hult Ryan Connell Lisa Northway

As a CIO, the dreaded question from leadership is, "Are we secure?" The answer is, "I don't know. I need to wait for the bad guys to show up or hire a consultant to test a small sample of our environment once a year" One of the key themes from Snehal Antani Horizon3.ai during his talk at Blackhat this year leveraging offense to inform defense. IOvations can help answer this question for you. Let's talk.

The DoD is continuing to evaluate CYBERCOM elements, examining the Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) and the Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Networks (JFHQ-DODIN) as part of its "top down" review of CYBERCOM. What can changes can we expect from CYBERCOM? Will Congress continue to raise concerns? Leadership Connect tracks key organizational information for all major commands, and can help your team connect with offices across the entire joint force- see how! https://lnkd.in/e6kYcx2z