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Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth and Operations
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Rivada Space Networks
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Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth and Operations
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Vienna, Virginia, United States
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John Scott is listed as Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth and Operations at Rivada Space Networks, based in Vienna, Virginia, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for John Scott.
John Scott previously worked as Senior Vice President at Exiger and COO, Director Federal & National Security at Ion Channel. John Scott holds Bs, Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University.
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John Scott currently works in the research area of enterprise software supply chain risk mangement.He founded Open Source for America, an advocacy group for use of open source software in government and the Military Open Source Software Working Group (http://mil-oss.org/). John drafted the U.S. Department of Defense policy for the use of open source software and is often called as an expert in this area. He also holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and an MS in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech and writes about defense software and acquisitions related issues, most recently at the Wall Street Journal “Send in the Tech Reinforcements”• Founder, Military Open Source Software (MIL-OSS) Working Group, www.mil-oss.org• Co-Chairman & Founding Member, Open Source for America, www.opensourceforamerica.org • Founder, The Codice Foundation, www.codice.org, is an industry-driven consortium of government, academia and industry providing infrastructure, support, education, and export control advice to communities of government-focused engineers and organizations operating open source projects.• Editorial Board, DoD SoftwareTech News Magazine, www.softwaretechnews.com• Former Chairman, National Defense Industrial Association’s (NDIA) Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4) Division• Council on Foreign Relations, Term Member (2007-2012)• Member Alexandria, VA City IT Council • CrossFit Level 1 Certified RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS• Send in the Tech Reinforcements Wall Street Journal, Feb. 11, 2013• Open Technology Development Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Military Software, May 2011, DoD-CIO / OSD-AT&L published report • Pentagon Is Losing the SoftWar(e), Defense News, 21 June 2010
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Senior Vice President
Current
May 2023 - Present
Coo, Director Federal & National Security
Current
Jun 2021 - Present
President
Jan 2015 - Jun 2021
Advisor
Current
Jan 2020 - Present
Cybersecurity Policy Fellow
John Scott is a fellow in New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative. Scott is the president of Ion Channel (www.ionchannel.io), a platform of services to provide continuous governance, risk, and compliance management of the software supply chain by ingesting, measuring, and rating software with code ecosystem data from vulnerabilities to unstructured supply chain data. Scott helped draft the U.S. Department of Defense policy for the use of open source software and is often called as an expert in this area. He founded Open Source for America, an advocacy group for wider use of open source software in government and the Military Open Source Software Working Group (http://mil-oss.org).
Sep 2017 - May 2023
Cohort Member
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
President
Selection Pressure Llc
Currently researching and working on the issues of software supply chain management: - How to organize and bridge support from outside the enterprise (public/commercial) to inside (controlled) for software, technologies and artifacts - Commoditize & increase use of vetted source code- Enable continuous support model for software with security Focus: Automate, Simplify & Scale with process and technology not people
Nov 2014 - Sep 2022
Director / Founder
Currently a Director at AirGap LLC. AirGap enables enterprises to manage their Software Supply Chain as a Service1 Bridge support from outside the enterprise (public/commercial) to inside (controlled/classified) for software, technologies and artifacts 2 Commoditize & increase use of vetted source code3 Deliver continuous support model for software with security Focus: Automate, Simplify & Scale with Technology not people
Sep 2013 - Jan 2015
Open Technology Lead & Senior Systems Engineer
Radiantblue Technologies
90 S. Cascade Ave., Ste 1490Colorado Springs, CO 80903RadiantBlue Technologies Ranked Number 11 Fastest Growing Company in North Americaon Deloitte’s 2010 Technology Fast 500™Attributes its 13908% Percent Revenue Growth to providing innovative solutions that exceed customer expectationsColorado Springs, CO, October 20, 2010 — RadiantBlue Technologies announced that it ranked number 11 on Technology Fast 500™, Deloitte’s ranking of 500 of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth during the period from 2005–2009. RadiantBlue Technologies grew 13908% percent during this period.
Sep 2010 - Nov 2014
Term Member
Jan 2004 - Dec 2010
President
Selection Pressure, Llc
May 2010 - Oct 2010
Director, Open Integration & Open Source Software
John Scott is the Director of Open Source Software and Integration at Mercury Federal Systems with deep expertise in engineered systems and bridging the gap between decision-makers, scientists and engineers to develop policies for acquiring and deploying new technologies in the Department of Defense and US Government. He has focused his career on investigating and developing ideas for how large organizations design, construct and evolve extremely complex systems to meet National Security needs.John currently leads the Defense Department’s Open Technology Development (OTD) initiative, sponsored by the Office of Secretary of Defense Advanced Systems & Concepts. OTD lays the groundwork for streamlined adoption of open source methodologies within DoD, which includes both the adoption of private sector open source software and the formation of internal communities of interest around DoD systems, including classified systems. The impact of these shifts in policy and business process include not only increased agility for the U.S. military, but also an enhanced ability to securely share capabilities with allies and bring both data and technology to bear in disaster response and humanitarian assistance operations.Previous work as a consultant to DoD includes the development of new design and testing methodologies for military networks, and the development of complex systems modeling applications for distributed systems. He has a patent in this field. In tandem with his work for OSD, John serves as the chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association’s Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4) division.
Jul 2008 - May 2010
Director, Open Integration & Open Source Software
Jan 2008 - May 2010
Director, Open Tech Dev
Radiantblue Technologies
2005 - 2007
~2 yrs
Director, Government & Defense Services
business development, sales, project management
Aug 2002 - Oct 2004
Director
2002 - 2004
~2 yrs
3 education records
John Scott education
Bs, Mechanical Engineering
Lehigh University
Ms, Systems Engineering
Virginia Polytechnica & State University
Education record
Marshall High School
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What company does John Scott work for?
John Scott works for Rivada Space Networks.
What is John Scott's role at Rivada Space Networks?
John Scott is listed as Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth and Operations at Rivada Space Networks.
Where is John Scott based?
John Scott is based in Vienna, Virginia, United States while working with Rivada Space Networks.
What companies has John Scott worked for?
John Scott has worked for Rivada Space Networks, Exiger, Ion Channel, Dcode, and New America.
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John Scott holds Bs, Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University.
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