“ I feel that we are very well set up for the next five years to completely crush it as a cyber IT and comm team ”
LAUREN KNAUSENBERGER CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER , DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
“ The CIO at the time , Bill Marion , looked across the table at me one day and he said , ‘ You know you ’ re probably the next obvious CIO , right ?’ And after I looked over my shoulder at who he could possibly be talking to , I said something along the lines of , ‘ I don ’ t think that is obvious at all !’
“ He encouraged me to put my name in the hat . And because the Air Force cast a wider net , I was not a tenured member of the senior executive service at the time .”
Since taking on the role , Knausenberger says it has been an honour to work with her team , particularly at such a transformative time .
“ It truly has been an honour of a lifetime to work with these airmen and guardians , at a time that we ’ re launching the Space Force and truly becoming an enterprise and moving through a lot of cultural barriers too , through
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