Category archives: IT

Challenges of DoD AI/ML Path

As the Depart­ment of Defense (DoD) con­tin­ues to explore dif­fer­ent use cas­es for inte­grat­ing Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence (AI) into its every­day process­es, it must learn from past lessons where AI deploy­ments failed. con­tin­ue reading

Bias of Large Language Models

With the increased use of com­mer­cial large lan­guage mod­els (LLM) in sci­en­tif­ic research, it is more impor­tant than ever to use crit­i­cal think­ing to ask ques­tions and under­stand respons­es. Before we focus on the use of LLM for sci­en­tif­ic research,… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Top Three Questions for the DoD Cloud Journey

Is the DoD ask­ing the right ques­tions as it con­tin­ue move large aspects to the Cloud? con­tin­ue reading

A Multiphase Approach To Killing the Living Dead

Here is an arti­cle that I orig­i­nal­ly did for AFCEA Sig­nal Mag­a­zine in Octo­ber 2022. Enjoy. The U.S. Space Force is going through tech­no­log­i­cal evo­lu­tion as it con­tin­ues to grow from its U.S. Air Force roots. One of the major… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Life Lessons as a CIO

I have spent the past two years as a Chief Inno­va­tion Offi­cer and Direc­tor in the hope of mak­ing the deputy gen­er­al man­ag­er role. This result­ed in spend­ing long hours at work, often six­­ty-five to hun­­dred-hour work weeks, doing unde­sir­able… con­tin­ue read­ing »

L.I.O.N or Not

I am con­tem­plat­ing this idea with LinkedIn late­ly, and I want to ask the community’s opin­ion.  With­in LinkedIn, there is a LinkedIn Open Net­work­er or L.I.O.N move­ment in which mem­bers are will­ing to accept invites from any­one.  The pro­posed ben­e­fits… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Do you still need your Windows in your Mac World?

I recent­ly had a con­ver­sa­tion with one of my Air Force co-work­ers, who the oth­er day bought a brand new Mac book.  Her exact words were, “So in love!.…yes…with my Mac Book Pro!” The prob­lem that she has is that she… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Why Spend Money On Antivirus When You Don’t Have To

(Dis­claimer:  This arti­cle is based for a PC user.) Why spend $80 dol­lars on Nor­ton Antivirus or $50 on McAfee Antivirus Plus when you get the same thing  for FREE with Microsoft Secu­ri­ty Essen­tials.  When you look at the bench mark… con­tin­ue read­ing »

PC running slow again?

In the past years, I have had sev­er­al of my fam­i­ly and friends ask me to look at their com­put­er because all of the sud­den their com­put­er stopped work­ing or it runs slow­ly when they try to browse the inter­net.… con­tin­ue read­ing »