Leslie Beavers, a previous Wash100 awardee, will step down from her position as the Department of Defense’s principal deputy chief information officer by the end of September after over three decades of service.
The Office of the DOD CIO announced the move in a LinkedIn post published Monday.
According to the office, Beavers played a key role in establishing the Cyber Academic Management Office and helped accelerate the adoption of identity, credential and access management enterprise platforms. She was also involved in the Mission Partner Environment project.
Who Is Leslie Beavers?
Beavers previously served as acting DOD CIO. In March, she returned to the DOD principal deputy CIO role after Katie Arrington, a fellow Wash100 awardee, was tapped to perform CIO duties at the Pentagon.
As DOD’s principal deputy CIO, she assists the CIO in advising the secretary of defense on IT, information management, information assurance, critical satellite communications, non-intelligence space systems, spectrum and telecommunications.
Beavers also served as director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance enterprise capabilities within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, where she led the Defense Intelligence Digital Transformation Campaign Plan, also known as Project Herald.
The former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer’s industry career included working at several companies, including NBC/Universal Pictures, GE’s Healthcare Diagnostic Imaging division and Husky Oil.
The U.S. Air Force Academy political science graduate holds a master’s degree in finance from South University.
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