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Justin Neroda leads strategic efforts to apply artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital solutions, and advanced analytics for military and global defense clients. Based in our McLean, Virginia, headquarters, Justin manages projects for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and other organizations. His expertise includes operationalizing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and migrating those Department of Defense (DoD) solutions to certified, accredited commercial cloud environments. His teams leverage commercial and open-source solutions to help clients get more value from their data, including AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics to support decision making.
Justin also has more than 20 years of experience managing analysts and developers to execute a broad range of modeling, simulation, and analytical tasks for the DoD. His work has focused on developing analytical models, visualization tools, and data architectures to support rapid analysis. Justin also has extensive experience marketing to defense organizations, creating project briefings, and writing technical reports.
Prior to joining Booz Allen, Justin was with a major defense contractor providing modeling and analysis for future weapons systems.
Justin holds an M.B.A. in management information systems from George Mason University and a B.S. in industrial and systems engineering from Virginia Tech.
What are the three greatest challenges facing your area of expertise? Currently, many organizations are not educated about how AI can be applied and how to develop and employ these capabilities.
How does your work change the world? Massive amounts of data are being collected that cannot be acted on. However, through applying AI, decisions can be made with this growing amount of data in shorter amounts of time with increased accuracy and impact.