- The Pentagon’s top AI officials regularly address members of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 Leadership Program
- They share exclusive insights on shifting department priorities, have candid, off-the-record conversations and develop relationships with top GovCon executives
- Visit the 4×24 Leadership Program homepage to learn more about why 4×24 is the must-join club for GovCon executives of consequence
The executives of consequence that make up Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 Leadership Program are regularly addressed by the top technology professionals in the federal government. Our intimate, exclusive and high-impact gatherings attract the most influential leaders in government who shape policy, drive innovation and influence federal business.
The Department of War’s top artificial intelligence officials are familiar faces to 4×24 members. They are attracted to the program’s curated peer network to provide exclusive insights into service needs, have candid conversations on a Chatham House, off-the-record basis and develop relationships with the most innovative firms in government contracting.
What Is 4×24 and What Are Its Benefits?
Alignment
4×24 find small format dinners with other top GovCon executives helps them discover new business opportunities. Off-the-record conversations on Chatham House rules allow members speak candidly and confidently and spark new collaborations.
Knowledge
4×24 members know meeting with leading federal officials from across the government enables them to strategize for emerging competitions and requirements. This assists them in developing proposals showing how their product can address critical challenges and win contract awards.
Connections
4×24 members are at their best when meeting peer executives at the intimate dinners and exchanging career and business experiences. This doesn’t just help broaden their business network, it also creates community.
Visibility
4×24 members build visibility with guaranteed consistent coverage in Executive Mosaic’s online news publications: GovCon Wire, ExecutiveBiz and ExecutiveGov. Utilizing services like the Executive Spotlight interview series help members communicate key messages and branding to GovCon’s leading professionals.
Why Should AI Executives Join 4×24?
For AI executives who want to know service requirements before they’re publicly announced, spark meaningful relationships that develop into new business opportunities and further their commitment to government service, the 4×24 Leadership Program is a must-join. Visit the 4×24 website to learn more and start your application today!
Who Are AI Officials Who Have Addressed 4×24?
Discover the backgrounds of five top DOW AI officials who have addressed the 4×24 Leadership Program.
Greg Little
Deputy CDAO for Business Analytics, DOW
Greg Little is no stranger to 4×24 Leadership Program members as he addressed the most exclusive community in GovCon three times, most recently in June 2023. An expert in enterprise resource planning, he was deputy CDAO for business analytics when the DOW’s CDAO office achieved full operational capability in June 2022.
Little also spent four years as the Defense Logistics Agency’s Defense Agencies Initiative implementation lead. Here he implemented the DAI Oracle enterprise resource planning platform for all defense agencies. This included requirements collection, testing design and business process engineering.
Little is now senior counselor at Palantir Technologies. Check out his keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 GovCon Executive Leadership Summit on Feb. 26!
Chandra Donelson
Chief Data and AI Officer; and Director of Data, AI and Software; Space Force
Chandra Donelson, recognized globally as a visionary leader and trailblazer in data and AI, addressed a 4×24 gathering in January of this year. As chief data and AI officer, and director of data, AI and software for the Air Force, Donelson delivers crucial capabilities to operators to improve their decision making and operational effectiveness across a $4 billion portfolio.
Donelson, in May 2024, played a leading role in developing a Space Force data analytics and AI strategic action plan. This strategized achieving data centricity through four lines of effort:
- Instilling a data- and AI-focused culture
- Advancing analytics and AI technologies
- Bolstering industry and government collaborations
- Maturing service-wide data
Donelson’s long federal technology career includes stops at the Army as deputy chief data officer and CDAO of the Air Force.
Eileen Vidrine
CDAO, Air Force
Eileen Vidrine, a pioneering AI professional in the DOW, spoke to 4×24 members in September 2020. As the Air Force’s CDAO, she created and implemented strategies for analytics, digital transformation and enterprise data management.
Prior to her USAF service, Vidrine spent a year as senior strategic advisor for data to the federal CIO at the Office of Management and Budget. She also held various leadership positions in the DOW, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Vidrine spent 10 years in the Army as a transportation and acquisition officer. She retired from the USAF in March 2024.
Jack Shanahan
Director of the Joint AI Center, DOW
Jack Shanahan spent much of his 36 year military career as the USAF’s foremost AI expert. He was the service’s first director of its Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team, also known as Project Maven.
Shanahan also established and led the Pentagon’s trailblazing AI fielding program tasked with bringing AI capabilities to intelligence collection and analysis. Shanahan in October 2019, as director of the DOW’s Joint AI Center, called for the DOW to increase funding for AI research and development as limited funds hampered his ability to recruit industry and military experts for AI research and development.
He addressed a 4×24 dinner in September 2017. Shanahan retired in 2020 as a lieutenant general.
Brett Vaughan
Chief AI Officer, Navy
Brett Vaughan, a technology professional with more than three decades of experience, spoke at a 4×24 dinner in April 2021. He held many prestigious DOW positions in his federal career, including as the Navy’s first chief AI officer.
As AI portfolio manager for the Office of Naval Research, Vaughan crafted and informed Navy policies and plans for AI and the coordination of AI work within ONR. Vaughan was previously the science and technology integration and innovation lead in the chief of naval operations office (OPNAV N2N6FX). There he drove science and technology initiatives across the Navy’s information warfare portfolio and supported science and technology decision-making and performance.
Vaughan was named as an inaugural member of the board of advisers at Knexus, an AI and machine learning firm, in January 2024. He is now CEO of Raise the Colors LLC, an AI advisory firm with a focus on AI-enabled maritime solutions and concepts.