How does technology allow us to adapt to a rapidly changing world? Join host Shaunté Newby as she speaks to people passionate about finding solutions to complex problems facing our world today. How do we apply IT infrastructure to modern-day space exploration? What’s a zero-trust strategy and how do we actually adopt it? What’s the future of AI trust? We’ll be engaging in conversations with some of Leidos’s brightest minds to answer these questions and more.
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In this finale, we look back on the conversations we've had throughout season three, with Robert Franceschini, Deputy Chief Technology Officer at Leidos. He'll walk us through the highlights from the season, how all of these separate mindsets work together to form an unstoppable ecosystem and gives us a look into Leidos' future.
Diversity in health tech will inevitably save lives. Having representation at all levels of development and implementation will ultimately lead to better service and success for everyone. That's something Liz Porter, President of Leidos Health Group and Kristin Gowers, Chief of Staff for Leidos Health Group, recognize and work hard to achieve.
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In defense operations, there is no room for error. Decisions need to be made fast, but they also need to be the right decisions. To make the right decisions, the speed of vital communication and information can be the difference between a successful mission and a failed one. That's where Leidos comes in.
Leidos is in partnership with the United States Department of Defense on JADC2, or Joint All-Domain Command Control and the Army’s version of JADC2 – Project Convergence – to ensure the most advanced tech and procedures are available. In this episode, John George, Vice President and Army Senior Account Executive and Dan McCormack, Program Manager of C4ISR Solutions, join to explain what JADC2 and Project Convergence are, how Leidos is involved, and why the initiatives are so vital to American defense.
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Gabby Thomas is a two-time Olympic medalist, a Harvard graduate, and a former Leidos intern. She is now pursuing her master’s in public health at the University of Texas. While her life has taken her on multiple different paths, they all intersect with her love for health.
Along the way in her journey to reach her own peak health, she discovered a passion for healthcare equity. Today she joins to share how her experience on the track has impacted her healthcare career and interests and how she balances it all.
Far too often, organizations put tech first and user experience second. In doing so they build a digital foundation that will steer away users and inevitably lead to patchwork fixes down the line. Lakshmi Ashok is the Vice President of Enterprise Service Management at Leidos. She joins to tell us why focus on DUX is so crucial, where businesses are getting things wrong, and the approaches to take to get it right.
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A new frontier for technology is upon us. Quantum Technology is utilizing the fascinating world of quantum physics to revolutionize technology. The practical applications are abundant, and cybersecurity is one of the biggest sectors that stands to gain from this progression. The technology is already in use for quantum encryption, quantum computers, and more. Elizabeth Iwasawa is Leidos' Quantum Technology Lead and a Research Scientist. She joins to explain what Quantum Technology is, why it's revolutionary, and what it means for the future of cybersecurity.
The world relies on energy. It's integral to our way of life, and that reliance is only growing. But while the technology we use has advanced at a rapid pace, throwing us into the future, our energy grid supplying that power hasn't. It's full of outdated infrastructure, in need of desperate repair, and there just simply isn't enough human power to get it done. That's why Josh Wepman is finding solutions elsewhere like in automation and modern technologies. Josh Wepman is the Technology Officer for Commercial Energy Solutions at Leidos. He joins the show to explain some of the major issues our energy grid faces, and the solutions he and his team are working on keep America running.
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There's a lot of care and big decisions that go into successful software planning for an organization. Changes in the software world happen at an astounding pace. It's not only important to pick the right solutions for today, but also to think about resiliency in the future. Not to mention finding the right solutions that fit in with the tech landscape already present in an organization without sacrificing practicality or efficiency. Today, Paul Burnette, Vice President of the Software Accelerator, and Drew Formica, Software Architect at Leidos join to share why it's so important for organizations to keep up with software tech and how they can do it in a way that keeps workflows fast and ready for the future.
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The modern digital landscape requires a new way of thinking about both cybersecurity and user experience. Cloud technology offers the solution for both of those things while not sacrificing efficiency. David Chou is the Director of Cloud Capabilities at Leidos. He joins to tell us about how the cloud works, why it's the safest option, and why it's crucial when working with Zero Trust or Beyond Compliant strategies.
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As cyber threats continue to evolve, security is more important than ever. It is no longer effective to just meet basic requirements. In today's world, security needs to be proactive. It needs to look ahead and predict the future threats it may need to fend off. That's exactly what the Beyond Compliance approach is, and why it's such a game changer. Meghan Good is VP and Director of the Cyber Accelerator at Leidos. Today, she joins to explain what Beyond Compliance means, how it works, and the best way for organizations to begin with this modern-day approach to cybersecurity.
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Some of our best work in technology comes when humans and machines work together. That also applies to AI-enabled tech. But to see those rewards, like any relationship, trust needs to be present, and that means it needs to be built. Building that trust is a task the team at Leidos is heavily focused on. Today, Ron Keesing, Senior VP for technology integration at Leidos and Tifani O'Brien, Lead for the AI and Machine Learning Accelerator at Leidos join us to walk us through how they're doing that and the challenges they face.
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Zero Trust is a cybersecurity approach that looks at security not just from the lens of keeping people out, but also at how we can protect all spaces when hackers do get in. It's not necessarily a new mindset, but it's been seeing a lot of traction since President Biden signed an executive order in 2021 making adoption mandatory for federal organizations. Jeff Mims is a Leidos Chief Technologist. He spends most of his time in the Zero Trust world and he joins the show to explain more about what it is, how it works and why it's so important.
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In December 2022, it will officially be 50 years since humans set foot on the moon. In half a century, the world has changed drastically, and so has the technology that got us there. But as the world has turned more digital, the importance of secure and stable IT infrastructure has never been more important. That's why as NASA looks forward to the most ambitious era of space travel in history, they need a team that can be trusted to bring the best and most reliable systems possible.
Nate Apodaca is the Vice President and Division Manager of the NASA portfolio at Leidos. He joins host Shaunté Newby to share what IT infrastructure means in the context of space exploration, why it's more important than ever, and the new challenges that his team at Leidos are working to overcome.
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MindSET Season Three kicks off this June. New host Shaunté Newby brings us conversations about Trusted AI, IT infrastructure in space and a whole lot more. Get ready to get in the MindSET of some of the greatest thinkers at Leidos and across the country.
For more information, visit https://www.leidos.com/mindset
The technological Valley of Death sounds dramatic because it is. In the life cycle of a program or product, it’s the difficult divide between concept and production.
“[The Valley of Death is] called that because many, many programs get to level three, level four, and they don't go any further, or they may make it to level five, but they don't go any further.”
Why is the technological Valley of Death such a hot topic? Because getting a product from one end of the valley to the other - from inception to operational - is how innovative ideas come to life. But things don’t make it across the valley often enough.
Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization - if new ideas don’t get to the operation stage, a company’s growth quickly stalls.
Stephen Cook, Deputy Group President at Dynetics, knows all about the technological Valley of Death. In today’s episode, he explains why it’s so hard to cross the valley successfully, and how Dynetics and Leidos successfully live in the valley.
“Don't fear it. Right. It's gotten this name for good reason. But there are reasons to change it and there are ways to deal with it.”
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With the rising number of cyber attacks reported in the news, and the growing importance of complex cyber environments, there has never been a better time to talk about cyber awareness.
Given the increasingly more sophisticated threats including data breaches and ransomware attacks that are occurring all too frequently, how can organizations protect the data within their cyber environments? And what are the core cyber challenges our customers face?
Vice President and Director of the Cyber Accelerator Meghan Good shines a light on emerging cyber technologies, trends in cybersecurity, and the increasing adoption of the zero trust philosophy.
“There's a lot of promise about applying machine learning to cyber use cases. For us, we're looking at the detection challenge, and how we can use machine learning to enhance our detection capabilities, which really is very similar to how it would be used in zero trust cases.”
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Since we first spoke to Leidos Chief Medical Officer Dr. Donald Kosiak 18 months ago, the world has changed in a myriad of ways we could never have imagined.
In today’s episode, Dr. Kosiak discusses variants, vaccines, masks, what the strategy is for exiting the pandemic and what we might see in the future when we manage to move past it.
At the start of the pandemic, people were thinking we might be able to suppress the virus, meaning we would eradicate it, but that’s just not the case. Coronaviruses tend to need to become endemic, like the common cold. Meaning the only way out of the pandemic for all of us is through immunity.
And that immunity can come in several ways: from getting COVID in the past and recovering, from getting the vaccine and gathering immunity, or a hybrid of those, i.e. getting the vaccine and having COVID infection.
“Until a large percentage of the global population, not just that of the United States, has one of those three things happen, we'll be reading about COVID and dealing with COVID for the foreseeable future.”
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When technology works, humans trust it very quickly. But you can’t go from zero to building a really trusted AI system overnight. It takes time for technology to get to the stage where people are ready to develop a trust relationship with it.
We’ve come so far in the last decade developing AI at Leidos, as a company we’re incredibly passionate about our trusted AI mission. While research has shown we trust self-driving cars within 10 minutes, there's still a tremendous need for trusted AI across the government, in combat and in matters of national security
In this episode of the Leidos MindSET podcast, we have Head of AI at Leidos, Ron Keesing, talking about confronting AI’s trust issues. He shares how the AI that we view today as an easily trusted system is in fact the result of extensive development, testing, expertise and interaction that’s occurred over a long period of time.
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Mental health is a big story right now in the military community. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are often referred to as the “invisible wounds of war,” and military doctors consider concussions to be the signature wound of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
June is PTSD Awareness Month, and it comes at a time when the military science community is making huge advances in how it mitigates, diagnoses and treats these invisible wounds. This episode of the Leidos MindSET podcast explores topics of military mental healthcare and new discoveries in the field.
In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Jennifer Belding, Dr. Jessica Watrous and Robyn McRoy, San Diego-based Leidos scientists who are discovering new solutions to mental health challenges through research.
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Welcome back to Season Two of the Leidos MindSET podcast.
The past year has been remarkable in terms of the climate. 2020 saw extraordinary wildfires, tropical storms and heat. As we saw more recently in Texas, extreme weather can have devastating effects on the power grid and put lives at risk.
What have we learned about the grid’s vulnerabilities? To learn more, we welcome Leidos energy expert Josh Wepman to discuss:
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Who better to round out MindSET season one than the Chief Technology Officer at Leidos, Jim Carlini.
Jim first joined Leidos in the early 1990s, and in this episode he shares not only his career journey to date, but also what he’s seen over the last 30 years in terms of evolution of technology and innovation.
More specifically, Jim discusses overarching themes he sees on a daily basis from customer requirements and challenges and how Leidos is addressing these. He describes how Leidos is delivering innovation at speed, with security, and doing it at scale.
“Those problems really demand application of innovation at scale. And we need, all of our customers need, to do it very quickly and to do it with a high degree of security, because in our interconnected information fabric, everything is within reach and everything needs to be secured.”
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What does operations and logistics look like at the extremes? Lisa DeVine, portfolio manager at Leidos, joins MindSET today to discuss this very question.
She defines what operations and logistics means, and how those definitions differ based on customer set or industry. And she offers examples of how Leidos is delivering logistic solutions from glaciers to galaxies and everything in between.
“In a commercial environment, we often think of logistics as procurement, warehousing and distribution. But in a defense construct, operations and logistics often encompasses other activities such as maintenance operations and transportation.”
But what technology is enabling this? How does automation, robotic process automation, autonomy, 3D printing, telemaintenance and wearables fit into the mix?
The market is changing constantly, driven by the “Amazon effect” - where customers want and expect more speed and efficiency. Paired with the drive for the application of intelligent technologies and an interest in more resiliency, the role of a logistician is changing too - it’s not just someone working in a warehouse anymore.
“It's so expanded these days, with software developers and analytics folks and the people who really ask ‘what if’ to make the whole supply chain work more smoothly.”
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NASA’s Artemis program is centered around space exploration and setting up an infrastructure and ultimately a lunar economy on Mars.
To talk us through human landing systems (HLS) and how the Leidos and Dynetics team is working with NASA to send the first woman and the next man to the lunar surface is 36-year space systems veteran Kim Doering.
Kim is Vice President of Space Systems at Dynetics, a Leidos company. Kim shares her career journey to Dynetics and how she’s excited to see the passion and enthusiasm in the next-generation team that’s coming aboard to work on this new mission in space.
She also talks about the evolution of Dynetics’ space exploration capabilities, from space centers to propulsion systems and satellites to working on NASA’s Artemis program.
She explains what differentiates the Leidos Dynetics human landing system to make it crew-centric, modular, and how they’ve pulled together a vast team of experts to collaborate for a really sustainable solution. And how this technology they’re developing can be applied more broadly to support missions on earth, develop new materials, new diagnostics and new research that all could have implications in the future.
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Within the Leidos Health Group, a team of more than 300 scientists, researchers, and program managers are focused on how human performance and biobehavioral research can support warfighters serving on land and on and under the sea.
Today’s guest on MindSET, Kevin Kaiser, leads this team as Vice President and Division Manager of Biobehavioral Research. His team focuses on both human subject and database-driven research in the areas of combat trauma, casualty care, warfighter performance, psychological resilience, behavioral health, readiness, and clinical research.
“As part of the military and veterans’ health operation and the overall human performance and behavioral health account within Leidos, we are uniquely positioned to use our research abilities and analytical skills to take various types of data and turn it into actionable information for our customers.
Kevin has had an incredibly unique career combining his interest and background in human performance, research, data, and technology to prevent illness, injury, and to optimize human performance not just in the military world, but in the corporate one, too.
In this latest episode, Kevin shares his path to Leidos and how the military applies Leidos’ research to optimize the entire deployment cycle of a warfighter and drive decision making, to promote readiness and resilience in our nation’s military. He also discusses the implications COVID-19 has had on research for the military and more broadly in a corporate setting.
For anyone wanting to follow in Kevin’s footsteps or to find out more about biobehavioral research, this is an unmissable episode.
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Analyzing data to make mission-critical decisions used to take days or weeks, but now edge to cloud operations have reduced this time to hours if not minutes. With edge to cloud, decision making is moved to the edge where data is collected and allows the data to rapidly transit to link the mission space to the cloud.
Derrick served in the U.S. Army in the intelligence domain and was deployed on several overseas missions, and he is now Director of Digital Modernization at Leidos.
“My focus has moved from working with customers, to facilitate intelligence collection and analysis, to building out mission systems that actually enable customers to exploit data and make sense of threat information.”
Derrick has come full circle bringing his career journey to a place where he can now offer capabilities to the modern warfighter. Working with Leidos for the last decade, Derrick is responsible for leading the corporation’s edge computing to cloud strategy and creating an edge to cloud ecosystem.
To find out how edge to cloud can be used across multiple verticals and use cases to collect, process and analyze data in near real time, don’t miss this episode.
“As our world becomes increasingly more connected, [edge to cloud] is forming that electric grid, if you will, of data as it's going from devices to the cloud, and back.”
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Like lots of kids, Kritina Holden dreamed of working at NASA when she grew up. Not necessarily as an astronaut, just at NASA. However, unlike lots of kids, Tina’s dream actually came true.
Kritina Holden, Ph.D., Technical Fellow in Human Factors at Leidos, has spent most of her career at NASA's Johnson Space Center, focusing on how humans interact with technology.
“Unlike a technology focused role, a human factors practitioner's role is to focus on the human user. It's not about what cool technologies can be brought to bear on a problem, but really about fully understanding -- what are the needs of the user in performing their task? And then what cool technologies might meet those needs?”
In this episode, Tina discusses how she got into the field, what being a Technical Fellow in Human Factors actually means, and what human systems integration is. She also shares some examples of how NASA is using human systems integration (HSI) in their program today and into the future as they plan for missions to Mars.
“Focusing on the human means that you involve the user from the beginning. Try to understand their capabilities, the environment they work in, and the culture of the environment. We follow the well-known Human Factors maxim of know thy user - for they are not you.”
To learn more about how HSI applies to office applications as well as space travel, how movies often miss the mark when it comes to realistically usable technologies, and how someone aspiring to follow in Tina’s footsteps can achieve their NASA dream, don’t miss this enlightening episode.
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We are entering a new age of air travel, and the security checkpoint could look much different with new technology advances.
To talk about what technology is and has been implemented in airports to protect and support travelers is Bill McGann, Chief Technology Officer for Leidos’ Security Detection & Automation operation.
Leidos acquired L3Harris Technologies’ Security Detection and Automation businesses in May, and now offers a comprehensive suite of fully automated and integrated security technology solutions for aviation, ports and borders, and critical infrastructure customers around the world.
In today’s episode of MindSET, we focus on airports and how our portfolio will help facilitate safe, healthy, and efficient passenger movement and enhance the passenger travel experience.
Why is Bill the best person to talk about this? Having worked in the arena for over 30 years, you can hear his passion for the subject when he talks.
“You've always got to lean forward and look ahead and never let the current events in the world stop you. And that is the vision that I know the team I work with in Leidos has and we're generally really excited.”
This is an incredibly enlightening episode, not just because the subject is pertinent to all of us, but because the technologies that Bill discusses aren’t in the distant future, some of them exist in operation today at current checkpoints around the world.
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Sensor technology is developing rapidly. New technologies and new applications are occurring frequently in the commercial sector and are being applied, matured or adapted for mission specific programs on the defense side too.
Talking us through how Leidos is involved in this arena is Cayley Rice, Enterprise Lead for Sensors, Collections & Phenomenology at Leidos.
With the influx of products and tools available commercially, and a growing trend of commercial sensors for common items like your doorbell, your smartphone or your thermostat, for example, how and where does Leidos fit into the picture?
What custom sensors isLeidos building and how are these being integrated into systems that can be rapidly deployed into some of the most demanding and mission critical kinds of environments?
Cayley provides a fascinating insight into the challenges and requirements that we have for this technology, as well as the need to speed up the timeframe for adapting sensor systems to commercial speed.
“We're basically adapting technology from the commercial world that got us smartphones, and using that same kind of process to advance micro-electronics for sensors and signal processing.”
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Dr. Julie Rosen is the Chief Scientist of the Leidos Health Group and Chair of the Leidos Technical Fellows, a program that celebrates technology, science and engineering across Leidos.
In this latest episode of MindSET, Julie shares her thoughts on how data are transforming healthcare, what AI and ML mean in the healthcare space, the challenges they’re up against, what is going well, as well as what the future looks like for the Health Group and how, as a mathematician, she’s become its Chief Scientist.
“Many people think data science is all about the mathematical algorithms used to crunch data. The true challenge lies in creating and applying the right model to the data available at a given time, and that data are relevant to investigate the mission need.”
So, if you're a future technologist or you’re just starting out in your career, Julie is someone you want to listen to.
“We want to make sure we cultivate the next generation of scientists and engineers at Leidos and in the larger technical community. On behalf of my fellow tech fellows, please reach out to any of us if you have questions about your technical career, or you want to talk about a particularly challenging technical problem.”
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Cybersecurity isn’t an issue that can be dealt with simply by using technology. It’s about working together to solve challenging puzzles, bringing together technology and people to solve complex problems.
This week’s guest on MindSET, Arlette Hart, Senior Technologist for Cybersecurity at Leidos, believes cybersecurity sits at the intersection between technology and people. For Arlette, if you want to protect against cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities, both technology and people have to work together.
Of course technology is important, it creates an opportunity for us to better detect, sense and react to activities happening, and even predict them, but it also creates new challenges of having to then protect the things that you’ve just created. It’s a vicious cycle.
Joining Arlette in this podcast is MindSET host, Meghan Good, Cyber Solutions Lead for the Intelligence Group at Leidos. And what makes the conversation so rich is that, while they both have cybersecurity as their focus, including its challenges and innovations, they’ve come at it along very different paths.
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On this week’s MindSET episode, Leidos Vice President and Maritime Systems Division Manager Donnelly Bohan talks about her work and experience in maritime autonomy, or as her team calls it “big robot boats.” Donnelly tells us about her role working with Sea Hunter, the Leidos designed and built Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV), which became the first ship to successfully autonomously navigate from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and back without a single crew member onboard, except very short duration boardings by personnel from an escort vessel to check electrical and propulsion systems.
Donnelly has been the division manager for maritime systems for three years, prior to which she had a 17-year career with the company stretching back to the SAIC days. And while she’s carved out this niche career, it wasn’t what she envisioned herself doing when she left school.
“I thought I would end up in a leadership role in a hospital portfolio, and that didn't come together quite as I expected. I did some internships and it wasn't as I thought it was going to be. I ended up transitioning to work for the state of Illinois on a technology challenge grant. So I jumped right into cutting edge technologies.”
And Donnelly has never looked back.
She is immensely proud of the work she does, the team she works with, the technology they develop, and the role their work plays in keeping Sailors safe via the ability to use autonomous vessels in dangerous missions.
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How passionate are you about your work team? Are they the reason you joined the company and what makes your work exceptional? In this episode of MindSET, we are talking with Trip Ferguson, Director of Manufacturing at Dynetics, a Leidos company.
“I want to be surrounded by the smartest people in the industry, and I believe Dynetics provides that, and I feel very confident that the resources will be available for me to succeed.”
Trip leads the team responsible for safety, quality supply and manufacturing operations at Dynetics, and he’s very vocal about his belief in their capabilities, in particular their unique process for design, rapid prototyping and manufacturing.
And this team is exceptional. They have perfected a collaborative approach to designing, prototyping, and manufacturing incredibly complex solutions like weapon systems to cables and harnesses. Working together at the Huntsville, AL, location, the team is able to take their customers’ requirements from design to prototype and get them up to rigid government standards and international standards in an accelerated timeline.
“Our technicians are highly qualified. If there's one thing that separates Dynetics from everyone else it’s we have the best people. We have frontline employees that have full ownership in what we do. And they're all trained to meet and exceed industry standards.”
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Today on MindSET we’re speaking with Doug Jones, Director of Leidos Digital Modernization Accelerator.
Doug has spent almost 20 years working in this arena. He started off with a focus on large scale, mission critical, software systems for the government, in particular for DHS and the FBI and delivering these projects. He then pivoted into information technology and cloud DevOps, before taking a sojourn into running cyber operations for DHS.
Now he’s working out of the Leidos corporate technology office, and has a focus on innovations and identifying innovations. He’s trying to centralize and get across the value of their various cross disciplines to all of Leidos’ customers, in order to accelerate their ability to deliver mission value.
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As many contemplate how to safely return to work, this week’s MindSET explains what proactive and preventative measures one company has taken to protect employees and customers from the transmission of COVID 19.
QTC, a Leidos company and the largest provider of medical disability and occupational health exam services in the United States, has continued to operate throughout the coronavirus pandemic to deliver its mission critical services.
In this special podcast episode, Grant Kim, CEO of QTC, describes the practical measures they’re taking in both clinical and densely populated office settings to ensure not only their staff’s safety, but the safety of their examinees too.
QTC has been implementing practical measures since the end of February - getting to practically zero transmission while still operating during this time of crisis. Grant credits their culture and innovation of their employees, who figured out ways to proactively implement prevention measures early on so that QTC could continue delivering their services safely.
“I think what we're most proud of as we reflect back on the month of March, where we performed well over 50,000 exams across 90 clinics throughout the country, we've had not one reported incident of infection between the veteran staff and providers.”
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If great culture is what you look for in an organization, then you should look no further than Leidos. Today we talk with Mike Raker, Vice President and Chief Engineer for Leidos, specializing in C4 operations.
Mike has worked at Leidos for over 19 years and having been involved in a number of different positions, from modeling and simulation ops research, to software development, he considers himself blessed to have had such a wide ranging career with so many different opportunities working in lots of different technology spaces.
And his extensive experience is what we are tapping into in today’s podcast, because Mike is at the sharp end of bringing all the C4 systems together, allowing customers to make and execute better decisions.
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The world is shutting down: travel is curtailed, socialising is taboo, shops are closed, COVID-19 has every community, globally, in a state of panic. And if there's ever a company designed to step into the void and say, “we're here to help”, it's Leidos.
“Because of the depth and breadth that Leidos can bring to the table, particularly around disease surveillance, the processing of new medications, new technologies to be applied in the healthcare space, we think we're at a unique advantage to help solve many crises, but this one in particular.”
Tune in and learn how Leidos is leveraging our 50+ years of helping our customers solve hard challenges, to try to unravel this particular riddle.
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“I’ve always been fascinated with AI - an early opportunity for me professionally was to work with NASA on a spacecraft mission called Deep Space, where we built the first software that could actually control a deep space mission. It was such an exciting experience - it ignited a lifelong passion in me for working with AI.”
Ron Keesing, Vice President and Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Leidos is a huge advocate of AI and ML and today shares with us his passion for how we humans can best utilize this human like intelligence to solve our problems.
But he’s quick to point out that whilst AI systems can exhibit varying degrees of intelligence, they should be thought of more as assisted intelligence, where systems are helping humans in a non invasive way to do things like Netflix movie recommendations, or auditing, or to search the entirety of the world wide web.
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Introducing MindSET launching in March 2020.
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