Chief Information Digital Officer, Senior Vice President, Information Digital Technology & Security, Boeing
Search every verified Dana Deasy interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Dana Deasy, as the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer, has emphasized a digital modernization strategy built on four pillars: cloud, artificial intelligence, command and control communications, and next-generation cybersecurity. Speaking at several events in 2018 and 2019, he argued that AI would become "more than just a tool" and "a partner" to the warfighter, and described the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center as a vehicle for cross-service "national mission initiatives." He cited specific pilot projects, such as an algorithm to predict sand buildup in Black Hawk helicopter engines and the use of AI to map wildfire fire lines in real time, as examples of the technology’s potential. Deasy also stressed the need to reframe acquisition priorities from "cost, schedule and performance" to "security, cost, schedule and performance," calling security a "condition of doing business." He advocated for decentralizing compute power to the "tactical edge" and leveraging cloud to improve data and algorithm delivery to deployed forces. In addition, he described his approach to organizational leadership as leaving "your organization in a better place" with "enduring, sustainable" change, and noted that his early focus as DoD CIO was aligning his office with the National Defense Strategy.
“The art of the possible for us is going to be how do you deliver in a concurrent manner these four pillars across them clearly the largest IT organization on the planet as you know we have an excess of over 200,000 professionals between contracting civilian and in service that touched the technology world and an excess...”
“I always like to say though people get captivated about the cloud strategy from basic infrastructure I have and I will continue to say it is not the cloud itself that is exciting but it's the art of the possible of what it represents and what we will be able to do with it all the way from let's face it the department d...”
“The day you say that you want to really embrace machine learning and AI the day you say that is the day you said you've also solved for a very large infrastructure problem because the do AI and machine learning at the scale that we're proposing to do it is it assumes in that strategy that we have a very large scale clo...”
“We are referring to those in our AI strategy as national mission initiatives and I'm actually going to take you through a couple of them today just to really bring it to life and then there will be initiatives that we'll work on with a specific component we'll want them to own that but will want them to use the center'...”
The Department of Defense faces tough challenges every day—from integrating new innovations and cyber defenses to making split-second decisions on the battlefield. In this session, Dana Deasy, CIO, DoD, highlights how defense agencies are spearheading innovation in national defense and cybersecurity through the Joint AI Center, providing standards and expertise in AI to ensure today is safe and tomorrow is safer.
Dana Deasy, chief information officer for the Department of Defense, speaks about the national defense strategy and his four key focus areas at the DISA Forecast to Industry on Nov. 5, 2018. For more information, visit the DISA Forecast to Industry 2018 event page: https://www.disa.mil/NewsandEvents/Events/Forecast-to-Industry-2018.
DOD CIO Dana Deasy delivered the opening keynote at the Billington CyberSecurity Summit on priorities of the Chief Information Officer at the Department of Defense
New Department of Defense Chief Information Officer, Dana Deasy, joins Brig Gen Kevin B. Kennedy, USAF, for a fireside chat at AFCEA Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium to discuss his first days on the job and the mission moving forward.
Gartner Mastermind Keynote Interview (Part II), that took place in Barcelona. Interview to Dana Deasy, new CIO for JPMorgan. This recording was done with a Nokia Lumia 1020, a 41MP camera phone.
Gartner Mastermind Keynote Interview (Part III), that took place in Barcelona. Interview to Dana Deasy, new CIO for JPMorgan. This recording was done with a Nokia Lumia 1020, a 41MP camera phone.
Gartner Mastermind Keynote Interview (Part I), that took place in Barcelona. Interview to Dana Deasy, new CIO for JPMorgan. This recording was done with a Nokia Lumia 1020, a 41MP camera phone.
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