Department of the Air Force Chief Digital Transformation Officer Stuart Wagner will be stepping down from his role, he announced during the Potomac Officers Club’s 5th Annual AI Summit Thursday.
“My term as digital transformation officer is coming to an end. I will be actually transitioning out of that role, believe it or not, this afternoon,” he told an audience at the summit in Falls Church, Virginia.
“I don’t think you need to worry, we’ve established some good leadership there, and I’ll probably be rejoining government in a new role shortly. So I’ll be back and continuing to work on this,” Wagner added.
Wagner is well known in the government technology and IT space — he was instrumental in establishing the BRAVO Hackathon, a series of multi-service prototyping events aimed at expediting learning and capability development from classified and protected operational data.
The most recent hackathon event, BRAVO 11 Bits2Effect, took place in Hawaii in February. The event sought to produce solutions that could help U.S. Indo-Pacific Command solve challenges involving operational theater data.
Wagner was also the executive agent and organizer for the Department of Defense’s INDOPACOM and U.S. European Command AI Battle Labs, which host hackathons to develop and strengthen the military’s AI capabilities.