On this week’s MindSET episode, Leidos Vice President and Maritime Systems Division Manager Donnelly Bohan talks about her work and experience in maritime autonomy, or as her team calls it “big robot boats.”

Key takeaways:

The range of future maritime autonomy technologies

How maritime autonomy supports the US Navy

AI/ML in autonomy development and COLREGs

Managing a diverse, dispersed workforce

The next evolution of autonomous vessels

Commercial uses for autonomy technology

How passionate are you about your work team? Are they the reason you joined the company? In this episode of MindSET, we are talking with Trip Ferguson, Director of Manufacturing at Dynetics.

Key takeaways:

How Dynetics uses rapid prototyping to solve complex problems,

Core capabilities of Dynetics and its manufacturing operations team,

What projects are best suited for rapid prototyping,

The biggest opportunities and challenges related to rapid prototyping,

Working with Dynetics at the Huntsville campus

Today on MindSET we’re speaking with Doug Jones, Director of Leidos Digital Modernization Accelerator.

Key takeaways:

How Doug got into the technology field

Digital modernization only exists to support customers in their work

The high level challenges in digital modernization

Which technologies are getting the most attention from the industry and customers

Where the big transformations will be happening in the next 5 years

How Doug stays at the leading edge of innovations

The importance of listening

If you run a busy office, what can you do to protect your employees and customers? In this episode with Grant Kim, CEO of QTC, we learn about the practical measures they’ve taken to ensure practically zero transmission while still remaining operational.

Key takeaways:

Why the work at QTC is mission critical

The importance of being able to adapt, improvise and overcome

How to combat anxiety and fear that arise when facing the unknown

Their management plan for dealing with coronavirus going forward

If great culture is what you look for in an organization, then you should look no further than Leidos. Today we talk with Mike Raker, Vice President and Chief Engineer for Leidos.

Key takeaways:

What C4 technology involves

What a software factory is

Why universities influence where software factories are located

The culture within software factories

Matching innovation with standards that need to be maintained

Future trends in software development

We’ve taken a break from discussing differentiated technology to talk about COVID-19, the new Coronavirus, with Dr. Donald Kosiak, the Chief Medical Officer for Leidos.

Key takeaways:

The scientific basics of the Coronavirus

How Leidos is supporting the efforts to contain COVID-19

Why we should ALL be social distancing

The best practices to help limit the spread of COVID-19

The different risk levels for different age groups

The cyber security challenges coming out of the pandemic

Ron Keesing, Vice President and Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Leidos shares with us his passion for how we humans can best utilize this human like intelligence to solve problems.

Key takeaways:

Why there’s a leap forward in AI and ML

Why AI and ML won’t suit every organization

Big data is critical for AI and ML to solve a problem

How to handle attacks on ML systems

Why our existing fears about AI and ML taking over are unfounded

How to keep up with advances in AI and ML

Introducing MindSET launching in March 2020.

For more information, visit https://www.leidos.com/mindset