{"id":99960,"date":"2025-07-28T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99960\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:53:09","slug":"former-pentagon-cdao-radha-plumb-takes-ai-transformation-role-at-ibm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99960\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Pentagon CDAO Radha Plumb takes AI transformation role at IBM"},"content":{"rendered":"

After stepping down from leading the Department of Defense\u2019s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office during the Biden administration in January, Radha Plumb has taken a role at IBM, leading what the firm calls \u201cAI-first transformation.\u201d <\/p>\n

As vice president of AI-first transformation, Plumb will spearhead IBM\u2019s Next-Generation Transformation Strategy and work across the company\u2019s core business lines to foster adoption of AI, automation and hybrid cloud computing throughout the global organization and with its clients and partners.<\/p>\n

Plumb started in the role July 14. <\/p>\n

A key part of her job, Plumb told DefenseScoop, will be serving as IBM\u2019s \u201cClient Zero,\u201d meaning she will internally operationalize AI technologies and concepts to test them before deploying to clients.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe approach is really taking AI solutions and embedding them in the company\u2019s own processes and then using that to prove out how AI solves problems, drives agility, creates efficiencies, which IBM then can use to help demonstrate that value for its customers, right? So, this is an internal transformation role, but with an eye towards building out concrete examples of execution for external consumption,\u201d Plumb told DefenseScoop.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not so dissimilar from her role leading the CDAO, which serves as a central hub for accelerating and spreading the adoption of AI, data and analytics capabilities across the U.S. military. She likened it to the work of CDAO\u2019s Rapid Capabilities Cell, which has been responsible for ushering in major contracts with frontier AI models.<\/p>\n

Likewise, IBM is very focused on \u201cscaled adoption at the enterprise level,\u201d Plumb said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo how can you get AI tools into the hands of your workforce, and do it in a way that, rather than AI as a substitute for all the humans, you team AI with the humans to drive efficiency and productivity?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Plumb explained: \u201cIBM\u2019s big bet is \u2026 how can we do this as an enterprise transformation and really kind of drive the AI transformation vision in concrete ways through businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

In particular, she sees an opportunity for IBM in working with her former employer, the Pentagon, and the federal government at large on the business side with applications, for example, managing supply chains, logistics, contracting and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where I think there\u2019s a lot of potential for rapid movement of things we find that work in IBM and applications to the federal sector,\u201d Plumb said.<\/p>\n

Since Plumb\u2019s departure from the CDAO in January, the office was led by Margie Palmieri, the deputy CDAO, until DOD leadership named Douglas Matty as the new leader in April. Matty previously founded the Army AI Integration Center under Army Futures Command, which he led between 2020 and 2022. Last week, DefenseScoop reported that Palmieri, one of the CDAO\u2019s longest-tenured leaders, is the latest to depart the organization amid a raft of others who\u2019ve left. <\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Billy<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWritten by Billy Mitchell
\n\t\t\tBilly Mitchell is Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Scoop News Group’s editorial brands.
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\nHe oversees operations, strategy and growth of SNG’s award-winning tech publications, FedScoop, StateScoop, CyberScoop, EdScoop and DefenseScoop.
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\nPrior to joining Scoop News Group in early 2014, Billy embedded himself in Washington, DC’s tech startup scene for a year as a tech reporter at InTheCapital, now known as DC Inno.
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\nAfter earning his degree at Virginia Tech and winning the school’s Excellence in Print Journalism award, Billy received his master’s degree from New York University in magazine writing while interning at publications like Rolling Stone.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After stepping down from leading the Department of Defense\u2019s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office during the Biden…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":99961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,18073,65273,65274,30959,65275,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-99960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-cdao","12":"tag-chief-digital-and-artificial-intelligence-officer","13":"tag-ibm","14":"tag-radha-plumb","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114932141409616246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}