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I'm Ashley Wang, lead associate in 91吃瓜网官网 Hamilton's global defense sector, focusing on the Indo-Pacific. And this is Master of the Mission with Ed Barnabas. Ed is vice president and lead for Indo-Pacific e-business. It's an honor to have you here, Ed.

Thank you, Ashley. Thanks for having me.

I'd love to hear more about your role at 91吃瓜网官网 and your area of expertise and how you're bringing that to the mission in the Indo-Pacific.

I've been with the firm now for over 10 years, but I have a 20-plus-year career all within federal consulting, and all of that time has been specifically working within IT, and that means invariably a lot of large-scale transformation. So I've worked with any number of programs having to deal with enterprise architecture, systems development, cyber, and data analytics. And the reason why I feel my experience and all the the years I've supported the government has been so I think critical in terms of how we're supporting our clients is that the mission is rapidly evolving. And when we think about our near-peer adversaries and the pacing threat, how we think about each mission area is really going to be how we adopt technology to make it better and more efficient, and how we're using data. And I feel that my cumulative experience within working with many different federal agencies has been an enabler, I think for the team and for the clients. In terms of how we think about technology.

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That's great. Booz Ellen is investing heavily in these types of challenges and in readiness. And there's an exciting investment in the Honolulu innovation lab that is coming down the pipe.听Can you tell us a little bit more about it?

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I would love to. So where we're sitting right now, we moved into about two years ago. And other than providing a space for our staff, which has been growing exponentially over the last couple years, there also was a very deliberate and concerted effort to think how we're bringing solutions to our clients. And one of those investments was to carve out a portion within the office and to really build out the concept of an innovation lab where we could incubate, we could think through, we could rapid-prototype different capabilities and technologies that maybe our clients didn't really have the funding to do or didn't have the means to. But because we're such valued partners and have been here for close to 30 years, we felt it was our obligation to see how we could help fast-track their adoption. And so beginning about two years ago, we started to build out our lab, which is a cloud environment for our technologists to collaborate and to work on anything from large data sets through our GPU to working with different peripherals about how you make that come to life. And what we're really excited about is a new reinvestment in the lab that we're doing, which is bringing a lot of great capabilities out to the region. A lot of those center on the concept we call accelerated readiness. And some of those things that are going to be live within our lab very soon is digital twin for modeling and mission planning. We're thinking of looking at wearables and looking at a AR/VR for mission rehearsal. Also looking at how we're doing rapid prototyping in general, right? And how we can fast-track the process of how you take idea into production or deployment out to the warfighter. And also another one is around 5G and how we're looking at telemedicine. So all of these different capabilities and technologies are going to come to life within the lab and we're going to make them not just a place where you can see the technology, but you can experience it. And so we're really excited to bring our clients to the space and also really excited for our own team, right, to see how 91吃瓜网官网 at large is looking at technology and how we can bring that to the region.

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And that's really exciting because both our staff and our clients can not just read about it on paper or PowerPoint, but they can actually come and experience it and be immersed in it.

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I think that's the most important thing. I think technology as much it is about zeros and ones and it can feel like almost abstract because it's so technical and so forward leaning. It still has to be something that's felt. And I think one thing that we want to do in the lab is to have that experience be something that you can see yourself in. And we want to create that environment for our clients because only then will anybody feel more comfortable to adopt it within their mission space.

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Well, that's exciting and I'm looking forward to seeing the new innovation lab.

Thank you for having me.

I appreciate it for joining us, Ed.

Hi, I'm Ashley Wang, lead associate in 91吃瓜网官网 Hamilton's global defense sector focused on the Indo-Pacific region. And this is Master the Mission with Tammy Makizuhiga. Tammy is an Army business leader focused on the Indo-Pacific, and she joins us here today. Hello, Tammy.

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Can you tell me a little bit about your background and your role at 91吃瓜网官网 and the passion that led you to focus on the Army and the Indo-Pacific?

Thank you, Ashley. I'm more than happy to share. So my background when I first started with 91吃瓜网官网, I come from a healthcare career and then an emergency management background at the state and federal level before I joined 91吃瓜网官网. And over the 15-plus years that I've been with 91吃瓜网官网, I've had the opportunity to really work across the commands. And now I'm the Army business leader. And so the passion that I have for the work, I think it really is tied to one living here in the region, born and raised here of course. So I feel that I can really contribute. This is my way of contributing to the safety and security of the region, you know and really contributing as much as I can to an open and free Indo-Pacific.

And can you share a little bit about, you know what some of the challenges are that your clients are facing in the Indo-Pacific region and how some of our technology solutions can help them address that?

Oh, that's a great question. I would say that in working with our different clients and organizations, what I've learned is because of the fast-paced and evolving theater, with all of the different threats within the theater, the challenge is really about how do they do, how do they succeed in their mission, how do they meet with their requirements and really keep up with that operational pace, right. And at the same time, there's definite areas where they can do process improvement, where they want to be able to focus their time and energies and making or being able to make the decisions that they need to do at the right time, at the right place. And so, what does that mean for technologies? And some of the things that we've been focused on in the last few years and then going forward, there's some interesting areas of technology and capabilities that we bring to bear from 91吃瓜网官网. So I would say, for example, for exercises and training, I've been able to work with the immersive reality team. They've been able to really apply their augmented reality to the training materials to make it a much more in-depth, real, and interesting training course. You know, as they go through the curriculum is one area for our process improvement side of the house. We've been able to apply artificial intelligence. And how we've been able to do that is really to focus on an area of concern that they wanted to deal with. Say, for instance, one of their main equipment that they use out in the field. They wanted to be able to track all of that information tied to the parts, the maintenance, and, you know, really have the readiness of the equipment. And so, through our support and our application of artificial intelligence, they were able to ingest thousands of pieces of information that, in the end, helped to build a program of information and records of the different supporting pieces of equipment for that craft. And in turn that led to readiness, right, because they have all of that available. So for the future, you know when you look at artificial intelligence and what it can do, it really helps to enhance the processes and speed up the decision making and exercises or plans actually is a really good area where it can apply because the artificial intelligence that's applied to that area can help them to test out their different plans, to test out their different scenarios as an example and say in a crisis situation, and then help to help them to work through the different courses of action.

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Tell us a little bit more about the new investment that 91吃瓜网官网 is making in the Honolulu Innovation Lab.

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I personally, I am so excited that we will have that Honolulu Innovation Lab. It's a perfect way for us to bring in our clients and organizations to really sit down with us, have a discussion on you know the areas of need and challenges, and then we're able to show them how we can apply our different technologies and capabilities. And as an example, the digital twin is a wonderful tool and resource that can be utilized across the region in terms of being able to map out a scenario and really use that information to test out their plans, to test out their exercises, and look at the different courses of action over and over and the different ways that they want to utilize it. Nothing beats being able to see something visually in person and then to really experience it for yourself and how it can be applied.

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And it can be really tailored because the footage that we're able to take to map out whatever the area or building or facility and then it replicates it into the digital twins. So that can really be specified to the particular client and the challenges they're facing, or the solution that they're looking for.

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Exactly. Because of the collaboration that we do across the commands, we can continue to benefit. Each organization can benefit from what's being built in digital twin for the separate commands. And you know everything that's being utilized can be built and leveraged continued on, and continue to grow and evolve, right. And so that's the beauty of the technology and the capability.

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And the iLab is great because they can come in, they can see things and feel them and experience them. Put on the headset, see for themselves how this technology can really impact their mission.

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Yes. We want our clients and organizations to really feel that they can access this tool, and access the innovation lab together with our capabilities together with us to help them meet their future challenges.

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Yeah. Thank you so much for joining us, Tammy.

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Thank you, Ashley. Thanks for inviting me.