New frontiers in military intelligence: Artificial intelligence, machine learning and the cloud

Lt. Gen. John N.T. “Jack” Shanahan is the Director for Defense Intelligence (Warfighter Support) (DDI (WS)), Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. The DDI (WS) ensures combatant commands (CCMD) have the intelligence policy, processes and resources they need to plan and conduct successful operations and campaigns.
General Shanahan previously served as the Commander, 25th Air Force, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. In his position as 25th Air Force Commander, General Shanahan also served as the Commander of the Service Cryptologic Component. In this capacity he was responsible to the Director, National Security Agency, and Chief, Central Security Service, as the Air Force's sole authority for matters involving the conduct of cryptologic activities, including the spectrum of missions directly related to both tactical warfighting and national-level operations.

Ms. Palmieri serves as the Acting Director of the Navy Digital Warfare Office in the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare (OPNAV N2/N6) staff. There she focuses on how the Navy can improve the use of data to enhance system integration and interoperability, and data-driven decision making.

Ms. Palmieri previously served as the Director of Integrated Fires (OPNAV N2/N6F3) where she managed investments, training, and policy for U.S. Navy electronic warfare, cyber operations, tactical networking, and targeting capabilities and programs. She was appointed to the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service in October 2013.

Ms. Palmieri was formerly the Deputy Director, Decision Superiority (OPNAV N2/N6F4), where she managed a portfolio of strategic, operational, and tactical command, control, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting concepts and capabilities. She also served as the Director of the 29th Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategic Actions Group (N00Z). Before coming to OPNAV, she worked at U.S. Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia in the areas of strategic planning, requirements and resources, Fleet training, and human capital. Ms. Palmieri first entered the Navy as a Presidential Management Fellow.

Ms. Palmieri graduated from Rutgers University with a Master’s degree in Public Policy and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science.

Mr. Mansfield is the Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center (SSC) Executive for Network Centric Development and Integration. He serves as both the SSC Atlantic (LANT) Technical Director, and the SPAWAR national lead for Net-Centric System-of-Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I). Mr. Mansfield advises SPAWAR leadership, and other Stakeholders within the Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal sectors on leading-edge architecture designs, cloud computing, agile systems engineering at the developmental and enterprise engineering levels. He establishes and directs engineering teams across the SPAWAR claimancy to produce effective results and further promote SPAWAR as the Navy's single SE&I agent and Information Technology (IT) and Information Assurance (IA) Technical Authority for Information Warfare.
Mr. Mansfield was appointed to the Senior Executive Service as a Senior Leader (SL) in October 2011 and has over 31 years of federal service.
Prior to this appointment, Mr. Mansfield most recently served as the Chief Engineer/5.0 Competency Lead for SPAWAR Systems Center, Atlantic. Prior to that, he served as both the SPAWAR National and Local SSC LANT Lead for the Command & Control (C2) and Business Information Technology (IT) Systems Competency as well as the Net-Centric Engineering and Platform Integration Competency. He designed and managed the implementation of cost effective Enterprise/Net-Centric architectures and provided disciplined technical oversight resulting in the delivery of agile, state-of-the-art System-of-Systems (SoS) engineering solutions supporting the development, delivery, and sustainment of integrated, interoperable, and effective strategic and tactical C2, as well as business and intelligence capabilities systems and services across both the DoD and Federal sectors. Mr. Mansfield held multiple other lead engineering positions during his tenure at Team SPAWAR resulting in notable contributions and awards for his support to the Veteran’s Administration Office of Enterprise Development as well as the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Horizontal Fusion Program. Additionally, Mr. Mansfield has a passion for workforce mentorship and education. He was responsible for the creation and stand-up of SPAWAR’s SOA University. SOA University was founded to provide a workforce development venue to continually analyze and provide innovative training on emerging technical, programmatic and operational advances. The University, initially focused on the SSC LANT geographic location, has now been deployed across the SPAWAR claimancy and has transitioned to the Workforce Development Office. More recently, Mr. Mansfield has pioneered integrating social networking constructs into the workforce as a means to executing, managing, and sharing technology-based solutions. Using this “guild” concept, Mr. Mansfield has led the development of communities in data sciences/analytics, cloud, cyber security, agile development, systems engineering leadership, and numerous others.
Mr. Mansfield has performed on the leading edge of many of the most critical information network developments providing breakthrough solutions to the most challenging SE&I problems. He currently holds patent 7,860,983 for Enterprise Identity Orchestration (EIDO) Service which has been utilized in multiple SPAWAR delivered programs.
Mr. Mansfield began his service as an Electrical Engineering co-op at Naval Air Engineering Center, Lakehurst, NJ while attending Drexel University. He received his bachelor’s of science degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University in 1989.

Mr. Madden is the General Manager of Microsoft’s U.S. Department of Defense business unit, responsible for the sales of Microsoft products and cloud services to the DoD worldwide. He previously led the company’s U.S. Air Force business. Before joining Microsoft in 2012, he led teams delivering mission critical solutions to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in support of national security objectives while working for EMC, VMware and Science Applications International Corporation
Prior to leaving military service in 2000, Leigh served for fifteen years as a Navy SEAL officer. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Middlebury College and a Master of International Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins University. He serves on the advisory board of Paws for Purple Hearts, providing services to veterans across the country.

Jason Miller is an executive editor and reporter with Federal News Radio. As executive editor, Jason helps direct the news coverage of the station and works with reporters to ensure a broad range of coverage of federal technology, procurement, finance and human resource news.As a reporter, Jason focuses mainly on technology and procurement issues, including cybersecurity, e-government and acquisition policies and programs.