Rocio Bauer’s profile over at WashingtonExec is worth your time if you’re thinking about what leadership looks like when you’re serving the Army through a technology lens. She’s spent her career at the intersection of mission and modernization, and the through-line is clear: deep technical credibility married to an understanding of how the institution actually works.
That combination doesn’t surface often in a search. You can find technologists who’ve never worn the uniform, and you can find former officers who haven’t kept pace with the stack. The candidates who can translate both ways—who know what a program executive office needs and can also architect the solution—those are the ones clients call about when a role goes unfilled for six months.
If you’re building or rebuilding a technology organization inside Defense, the hire matters more than the tool. A leader who’s done it before, in uniform or in support of it, cuts years off your timeline. That’s the search we run.