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The CIA’s first CTO, Nand Mulchandani, prepares for the Trump administration
In April 2022, the CIA decided to swipe right on Nand Mulchandani, appointing him as its first-ever Chief Technology Officer. It was a good look for the
Mulchandani, who previously served as the CTO and acting director of the Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, is something of a rare breed in Washington. Before becoming a government employee, he co-founded and was CEO at a string of Bay Area outfits with almost comically Silicon Valley-esque names: Oblix, Determina, OpenDNS, and ScaleXtreme, each of them snapped up by a tech titan (Oracle, VMWare, Cisco, and Citrix, respectively). So launching [ two new mission centers in 2021, one focused on China and another dedicated to transnational and technological threats] and then the creation of the CTO role were the big organizational changes that he made.
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