Garry Schwartz on talent technology
From Be Bold, Seen & Invaluable: Garry Schwartz Transforms his Military Mission to Industry Success · · WashingtonExec
“My career compass was really born out of I identified a need to our talent acquisition team to quickly look across all the people we had and find the right people for us to submit as part of these onerous proposals ... the same artificial intelligence capabilities that allow you to do that will allow us to help reshape where our employees are looking to help drive their career.”
On , Garry Schwartz, Chief Operating Officer at Huntington Ingalls Industries, spoke about talent technology during Be Bold, Seen & Invaluable: Garry Schwartz Transforms his Military Mission to Industry Success on WashingtonExec.
About Garry Schwartz
Garry Schwartz, chief operating officer at HII Mission Technologies, has discussed the company's role in supporting the Department of Defense's Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) initiative. In June 2025 appearances on DefenseTech TV, Schwartz described CJADC2 as "a suite of capabilities" that are "still on a drawing board" and said the underlying technologies exist but must be brought together. He emphasized the importance of data fabrics or data meshes coupled with artificial intelligence to enable interoperability, and noted that HII has been asked to support the mission partner environment with a cloud-based platform called Ionic. Schwartz also discussed the challenge of integrating systems that were not built to work in a net-centric fashion and the need for industry to engage in dialogue with defense leaders to avoid building the wrong solutions. In a November 2025 podcast interview, Schwartz reflected on his transition from 21 years in the Marine Corps to industry leadership. He advised that former military personnel entering the defense industry should "come in with a little bit of humbleness, with that boldness" and pitch how they can quickly contribute. Schwartz said patience is a key skill he often sees missing in younger workers, and that career success "takes some time." He discussed an internal HII platform called "My Career Compass," which he said was born from a need to identify employees for proposals and uses AI to help reshape career development. Schwartz also stated that while industry must make a profit, the motivation is "to beat the competition to give our forces what they need."