Christopher Ritter Email & Phone Number

Chris Ritter is the director of the Digital Innovation Center of Excellence and department manager for Digital Engineering at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). At INL, he leads digital twinning, digital engineering, AI/ML, and digital thread technologies across a portfolio of energy, nuclear, non-proliferation, and defense applications. Chris founded INL's nationally leading digital engineering team which grew from 0 to over 57 of the nation’s top researchers and developers in digital science. His team led the first nuclear reactor digital twin, built the Deep Lynx open digital thread platform, developed the first autonomous non-nuclear microreactor, and is actively building multiple petabyte-scale digital thread platforms. Additionally, he is a supporter of inclusive diversity and serves as co-president of Newcomers in Leadership for the Executive Inclusion Council at INL. Prior to INL, Chris co-founded and led development of the #1 cloud-native MBSE tool, Innoslate, used in 107 counties across 2,000 companies around the world.

Listed skills include System Architecture, Software Development, Systems Engineering, Requirements Management, and 12 others.