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The punchline was , ‘ Can I take your wife out for a beer ?’ Knausenberger laughs .
“ After my husband stopped laughing , he sent the captain my phone number and we met up ,” she says . “ As we were chatting , I opened up my little bar napkin and I started sketching some things out . We were having a great conversation and just bouncing ideas off each other .”
From this conversation , Knausenberger was asked to put those notes together in a pitch to General Kim Crider , who would later become the first Chief Data Officer of the
Air Force and the first Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for the Space Force .
“ I then met General Holmes who went on to be the Air Combat Command four-star and then to General Bill Bender where it all started . And , over time , he and General Crider tackled me and said , ‘ Hey , we really need you to serve your country because when you talk about these things , we believe that we can really do them ’.”
As Knausenberger explains , the CIO role came thanks to the decision by the Air Force to cast a wider net in the interest of innovation .
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