Chief Data and Analytics Officer
Mr. J. Brian Kelly
Mr. Brian Kelly was appointed as a Scientific and Professional Senior Technologist (ST) in December 2023, and serves as the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command's Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO). This position is a direct report to the Executive Technical Director/Deputy to the Commander of ATEC, focused on digitally transforming the test and evaluation data and data products command-wide.
Prior to ATEC, Mr. Kelly was the lead data scientist in the Network Cross Functional Team (N-CFT), a matrixed position with U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Data and Analysis Center, formally known as U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA), from 2019 to 2022.
From 2012 to 2019, Mr. Kelly served as the lead for the Cyber Electromagnetic Activities Team. In this position, he led the systems performance analysis of the Multi-Function Electronic Warfare Analysis of Alternative, which the Army conducted to inform an acquisition category II Milestone A decision.
Mr. Kelly held the position of lead analyst for an organizational-wide solution for data request and data fulfillment vision from within the Joint Data Center, the central hub of all system performance data at AMSAA from 2011-2012. He helped establish a coalition within AMSAA, as well as with various customers to begin the modernization.
From 2006 to 2011, he served as the acting team lead of AMSAA's Survivability Team where he developed a set of physical and behavioral models for a new functional area titled active protective systems within OneSAF.
Mr. Kelly started his civil service in 1999 serving as a lead analyst on the Advanced Simulation Team at AMSAA, supporting the Product Manager in the contract evaluation through version 1.0 for a next generation force level simulation called OneSAF Objective System - a brigade and below semi-automated force on force level simulation.
Mr. Kelly's educational achievements include a Mechanical Engineering degree from University of Maryland College Park in 2000, a master’s degree in Computer Science – Information Security from Johns Hopkins University in 2004 and a master’s degree in Computer Science – Cybersecurity from University of Delaware in 2017.
BACKGROUND
Education:
Master’s degree in Computer Science – Information Security from Johns Hopkins University
Master’s degree in Computer Science – Cybersecurity from University of Delaware
Mechanical Engineering degree from University of Maryland College Park
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