The command of combatants who oversees US military operations in the Middle East has a new technology director.
Joy Angela Shanaberger, who was recently principal advisor to the deputy defense secretary, Kathleen Hicks, during the Biden administration, assumed the role of CTO to the US Central Command, which has its headquarters in Tampa, Florida, the month last.
“Join a large team in the Sunshine State,” wrote Shanaberger in an article Linkedin, adding that she was “ready to achieve great things together, deliberately”.
In his new job, Shanaberger is about to play a key role in continuing innovation efforts that have applicability through the army.
In addition to carrying out operations against terrorist groups, the Iranian army and its proxies in recent months and years, the central command serves as a test bench for advanced technologies – including unmanned platforms,, IA And automatic learningAnd counter-ground systems – via organizations like Labor force 59,, Labor force 99,, Labor force 39 and others.
Shanaberger succeeds Schuyler Moorewhich was the first CTO to One hundred. Moore is now used in a intelligence In the United States, the naval headquarters of the Navy in Naples, Italy, where it was mobilized by the Navy Reserve.
“Hats off to Schuyler Moore for the incredible work accomplished in his mandate and preparing for success. Looking forward to getting to the scale! Shanaberger wrote on LinkedIn.
Moore wrote that the command of the fighter was “lucky” to have shrubs on board.
According to Shanaberger’s LinkedIn profile, she previously founded a company called Boone, which she described as a “technological access company at the service of defense and intelligence communities with rapid technological deployment to tactical advantage”.
During the Obama administration, she was a special assistant in what was then known as the Defense under-secretary office for acquisition, technology and logistics. The AT&L management was then separated to make way for acquisition and maintenance and separate research and engineering administrators.