On Today's Show: In this finale, we look back on the conversations we've had throughout season three, with Robert Franceschini, Deputy Chief Technology Officer at Leidos. He'll walk us through the highlights from the season, how all of these separate mindsets work together to form an unstoppable ecosystem and gives us a look into Leidos' future. Key Takeaways: Highlighting the various mindsets and technologies discussed in season three How these technologies come together in the ecosystem Lookin...
Dec 06, 2022•25 min•Season 3Ep. 13
On Today's Show: "It will be a wonderful day when individuals come to work and can be their true whole selves and not worry about, “Do I fit in?” “Do I need to behave a certain way?” People that are worried about being themselves authentically are expending so much energy on something other than being at work and being present.” - Liz Porter Diversity in health tech will inevitably save lives. Having representation at all levels of development and implementation will ultimately lead to better se...
Nov 22, 2022•29 min•Season 3Ep. 12
On Today's Show: "If you're a firing battery, you have to move quickly and constantly. You cannot stay in the same location, and you have to expect there's gonna be periods of disconnection (but) you have to be able to operate in that and still deliver fires, still know where you are, still have the right information at your fingertips." - John George In defense operations, there is no room for error. Decisions need to be made fast, but they also need to be the right decisions. To make the right...
Nov 08, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 11
On Today's Show: "I wanted to know how I could go into that space, how I could help, and I felt like my background being just a Black woman who is very interested in her own health, (meant) it would be a good area for me to go into and see how I can make a difference." - Gabby Thomas Gabby Thomas is a two-time Olympic medalist, a Harvard graduate, and a former Leidos intern. She is now pursuing her master’s in public health at the University of Texas. While her life has taken her on multiple dif...
Oct 25, 2022•28 min•Season 3Ep. 10
On Today's Show: "We tend to focus on technology, and so the soft touchy feely becomes secondary. We need to switch that around. We need to start thinking always about how the customers are going to use whatever we provide and then start designing to that." - Lakshmi Ashok Far too often, organizations put tech first and user experience second. In doing so they build a digital foundation that will steer away users and inevitably lead to patchwork fixes down the line. Lakshmi Ashok is the Vice Pre...
Oct 11, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 9
On Today's Show: "I mean, we're basically looking at the transistor revolution (...) that took computers from the size of rooms to something you can put in your pocket. It's that kind of, you discover new technology, you apply it everywhere and see what you can do." - Elizabeth Iwasawa A new frontier for technology is upon us. Quantum Technology is utilizing the fascinating world of quantum physics to revolutionize technology. The practical applications are abundant, and cybersecurity is one of ...
Sep 27, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 8
On Today's Show: "It's not that we don't invest enough, it's that an awful lot of people would say we don't get enough value for the money we spend. That's where our team and our opportunity comes to do more, better, faster to drive better resiliency in the system and to ultimately keep costs low so everybody benefits from a more resilient, clean energy." - Josh Wepman The world relies on energy. It's integral to our way of life, and that reliance is only growing. But while the technology we use...
Sep 13, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 7
On Today's Show: "The first step is realizing that the first decision you make won't be your last. There's not a perfect solution out there. There are a lot of variables to consider when we build a system or solution. We can't just pick the hot new thing because it might not be mature enough or it might not work in our customer space." - Paul Burnette. There's a lot of care and big decisions that go into successful software planning for an organization. Changes in the software world happen at an...
Aug 30, 2022•28 min•Season 3Ep. 6
On Today's Show: "The security is actually more stringent and more secure, even though from a practical sort of perception standpoint, it may not seem that way at, at first glance. But when you peel back the onion layers, you'll realize this way of operating, yeah, it's different, but it's actually much more secure and it gives the users a much better experience." - David Chou The modern digital landscape requires a new way of thinking about both cybersecurity and user experience. Cloud technolo...
Aug 16, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 5
On Today's Show: "There will always be incidents to respond to though. And that's part of this mindset too, is that you're assuming breach much like in zero trust. You're awaiting it, but you already have mechanisms in place to help you in that situation" - Meghan Good As cyber threats continue to evolve, security is more important than ever. It is no longer effective to just meet basic requirements. In today's world, security needs to be proactive. It needs to look ahead and predict the future ...
Aug 02, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 4
On Today's Show: "If you can get the trust relationship right, when humans and machines actually work together to solve problems you can really transform the way that business is done. If you build that relationship with intention based on trust, then humans actually really like working with AI-enabled capabilities traditionally." - Ron Keesing Some of our best work in technology comes when humans and machines work together. That also applies to AI-enabled tech. But to see those rewards, like an...
Jul 19, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 3
On Today's Show "This philosophy is very different from traditional thinking, which is if we build a wall big enough, we can keep all the bad guys out. Well, eventually the bad guys will master flight and make it over our walls. And then what? That's where Zero Trust philosophy says, protect the inside just like we do outside the walls." - Jeff Mims Zero Trust is a cybersecurity approach that looks at security not just from the lens of keeping people out, but also at how we can protect all space...
Jul 05, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 2
On Today's Show "It's interesting thinking back to what sent a man to the moon the first time." ... "To see the sheer size and volume of those (computers) and to know now that we have that technology at our fingertips and the ability and the power that it can provide is really beyond imagination." - Nate Apodaca In December 2022, it will officially be 50 years since humans set foot on the moon. In half a century, the world has changed drastically, and so has the technology that got us there. But...
Jun 21, 2022•23 min•Season 3Ep. 1
MindSET Season Three kicks off this June. New host Shaunté Newby brings us conversations about Trusted AI, IT infrastructure in space and a whole lot more. Get ready to get in the MindSET of some of the greatest thinkers at Leidos and across the country. For more information, visit https://www.leidos.com/mindset
May 31, 2022•54 sec
The technological Valley of Death sounds dramatic because it is. In the life cycle of a program or product, it’s the difficult divide between concept and production. “[The Valley of Death is] called that because many, many programs get to level three, level four, and they don't go any further, or they may make it to level five, but they don't go any further.” Why is the technological Valley of Death such a hot topic? Because getting a product from one end of the valley to the other - from incept...
Dec 09, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 6
With the rising number of cyber attacks reported in the news, and the growing importance of complex cyber environments, there has never been a better time to talk about cyber awareness. Given the increasingly more sophisticated threats including data breaches and ransomware attacks that are occurring all too frequently, how can organizations protect the data within their cyber environments? And what are the core cyber challenges our customers face? Vice President and Director of the Cyber Accele...
Nov 11, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Since we first spoke to Leidos Chief Medical Officer Dr. Donald Kosiak 18 months ago, the world has changed in a myriad of ways we could never have imagined. In today’s episode, Dr. Kosiak discusses variants, vaccines, masks, what the strategy is for exiting the pandemic and what we might see in the future when we manage to move past it. At the start of the pandemic, people were thinking we might be able to suppress the virus, meaning we would eradicate it, but that’s just not the case. Coronavi...
Oct 14, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 4
When technology works, humans trust it very quickly. But you can’t go from zero to building a really trusted AI system overnight. It takes time for technology to get to the stage where people are ready to develop a trust relationship with it. We’ve come so far in the last decade developing AI at Leidos, as a company we’re incredibly passionate about our trusted AI mission. While research has shown we trust self-driving cars within 10 minutes, there's still a tremendous need for trusted AI across...
Aug 04, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Mental health is a big story right now in the military community. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are often referred to as the “invisible wounds of war,” and military doctors consider concussions to be the signature wound of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. June is PTSD Awareness Month, and it comes at a time when the military science community is making huge advances in how it mitigates, diagnoses and treats these invisible wounds. This episode of th...
Jun 21, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome back to Season Two of the Leidos MindSET podcast. The past year has been remarkable in terms of the climate. 2020 saw extraordinary wildfires, tropical storms and heat. As we saw more recently in Texas, extreme weather can have devastating effects on the power grid and put lives at risk. What have we learned about the grid’s vulnerabilities? To learn more, we welcome Leidos energy expert Josh Wepman to discuss: The effects of extreme weather on the power industry Distributed energy What ...
Apr 12, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Who better to round out MindSET season one than the Chief Technology Officer at Leidos, Jim Carlini. Jim first joined Leidos in the early 1990s, and in this episode he shares not only his career journey to date, but also what he’s seen over the last 30 years in terms of evolution of technology and innovation. More specifically, Jim discusses overarching themes he sees on a daily basis from customer requirements and challenges and how Leidos is addressing these. He describes how Leidos is deliver...
Oct 22, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 17
What does operations and logistics look like at the extremes? Lisa DeVine, portfolio manager at Leidos, joins MindSET today to discuss this very question. She defines what operations and logistics means, and how those definitions differ based on customer set or industry. And she offers examples of how Leidos is delivering logistic solutions from glaciers to galaxies and everything in between. “In a commercial environment, we often think of logistics as procurement, warehousing and distribution. ...
Oct 08, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 16
NASA’s Artemis program is centered around space exploration and setting up an infrastructure and ultimately a lunar economy on Mars. To talk us through human landing systems (HLS) and how the Leidos and Dynetics team is working with NASA to send the first woman and the next man to the lunar surface is 36-year space systems veteran Kim Doering. Kim is Vice President of Space Systems at Dynetics, a Leidos company. Kim shares her career journey to Dynetics and how she’s excited to see the passion a...
Sep 24, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Within the Leidos Health Group, a team of more than 300 scientists, researchers, and program managers are focused on how human performance and biobehavioral research can support warfighters serving on land and on and under the sea. Today’s guest on MindSET, Kevin Kaiser, leads this team as Vice President and Division Manager of Biobehavioral Research. His team focuses on both human subject and database-driven research in the areas of combat trauma, casualty care, warfighter performance, psycholo...
Sep 10, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Analyzing data to make mission-critical decisions used to take days or weeks, but now edge to cloud operations have reduced this time to hours if not minutes. With edge to cloud, decision making is moved to the edge where data is collected and allows the data to rapidly transit to link the mission space to the cloud. Derrick served in the U.S. Army in the intelligence domain and was deployed on several overseas missions, and he is now Director of Digital Modernization at Leidos. “My focus has mo...
Aug 27, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Like lots of kids, Kritina Holden dreamed of working at NASA when she grew up. Not necessarily as an astronaut, just at NASA. However, unlike lots of kids, Tina’s dream actually came true. Kritina Holden, Ph.D., Technical Fellow in Human Factors at Leidos, has spent most of her career at NASA's Johnson Space Center, focusing on how humans interact with technology. “Unlike a technology focused role, a human factors practitioner's role is to focus on the human user. It's not about what cool techno...
Aug 13, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 12
We are entering a new age of air travel, and the security checkpoint could look much different with new technology advances. To talk about what technology is and has been implemented in airports to protect and support travelers is Bill McGann, Chief Technology Officer for Leidos’ Security Detection & Automation operation. Leidos acquired L3Harris Technologies’ Security Detection and Automation businesses in May, and now offers a comprehensive suite of fully automated and integrated security ...
Jul 30, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Sensor technology is developing rapidly. New technologies and new applications are occurring frequently in the commercial sector and are being applied, matured or adapted for mission specific programs on the defense side too. Talking us through how Leidos is involved in this arena is Cayley Rice, Enterprise Lead for Sensors, Collections & Phenomenology at Leidos. With the influx of products and tools available commercially, and a growing trend of commercial sensors for common items like your...
Jul 16, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Dr. Julie Rosen is the Chief Scientist of the Leidos Health Group and Chair of the Leidos Technical Fellows, a program that celebrates technology, science and engineering across Leidos. In this latest episode of MindSET, Julie shares her thoughts on how data are transforming healthcare, what AI and ML mean in the healthcare space, the challenges they’re up against, what is going well, as well as what the future looks like for the Health Group and how, as a mathematician, she’s become its Chief S...
Jul 02, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Cybersecurity isn’t an issue that can be dealt with simply by using technology. It’s about working together to solve challenging puzzles, bringing together technology and people to solve complex problems. This week’s guest on MindSET, Arlette Hart, Senior Technologist for Cybersecurity at Leidos, believes cybersecurity sits at the intersection between technology and people. For Arlette, if you want to protect against cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities, both technology and people have to w...
Jun 18, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 8
