Rob Albritton
Reston, Virginia – (work wire) – Senior Director of the Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence at Octo’s Olabis Research and Development Innovation Facility, promoted to Vice President. In his new role, Albritton, award-winning AI and Machine Learning (ML) expert, will continue to shape Octo’s AI capability, strategy, and vision.
Albritton was instrumental in Launching and developing oLabs as a government innovation center for artificial intelligence. “I am honored to serve Octo in this new capacity,” said Albritton. “With the recent opening of the multi-million dollar OLabs Innovation Center, Octo has set a flag. We have built the most powerful government contracting facility focused on missions, artificial intelligence, and emerging technology and endowed it with world-class talent. Our message to our customers is clear: present us with our toughest technological challenges. The resources and talents to solve it with you.”
oLabs is a 15,000-square-foot innovation center featuring 20 petaflops of AI computing, three petabytes of flash storage arrays, an autonomous systems development lab, a close combat and augmented reality lab, more than 50 employees with roots in companies like Bosch and Microsoft, as well as mission units US military special. Albritton has worked to help oLabs garner investment and equipment from some of the world’s largest providers of IT computing power, including nvidiaDel Aws, and others. oLabs innovations include a A suite of open source products that provide 360° situational awareness On the tactical edge, easy to use AI-powered MLOps tool that automates the process of updating a fighter’s ML modelIt’s on the battlefield, and other solutions backed by emerging technologies.
With the recent AI contract win at the DoD Joint AI Center, US Army PEO Soldier, and US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory, the Albritton and Octo oLabs team established Octo as a trusted provider of artificial intelligence solutions to the Department of Defense. As Vice President, Rob will work to grow Octo’s AI practices and solutions across its entire client group including the American Intelligence Community, Healthcare, and GSA.
“We are delighted that Rob is representing Octo in this new capacity,” he said. Suji Edward, Head of Technology at Octo. “Rob came to Octo and oLabs saying this is where he wants to run his life’s business, and he’s doing exactly that. With his help, oLabs has taken a giant leap forward in bringing a level of innovation to the East Coast that was previously thought only to come from Silicon Valley. , the kind of innovation that enables our customers to jump on the technology curve and not only solve today’s problems, but be ready to solve tomorrow’s problems too.Rob’s vision, creativity, and leadership have made oLabs the first research and development facility where federal government and industry customers can come together to find solutions to problems The most complex world that can only be solved with the next generation of oLabs technology you are developing. You can’t call yourself a modernization company without space like this.”
Prior to joining Octo, Albritton worked as a scientist in the US Army’s Geospatial Research Laboratory and machine learning engineer at MITER and spent several years growing the public sector team at NVIDIA alongside thought leaders in high performance computing, artificial intelligence and deep learning. He has received several prestigious awards, including the US Army ERDC Award for Achievement in Technology Transfer; Combat IED Technology and Army Commander’s Civil Service Award; and an award in support of US Special Operations Command and the Joint Agency for Personnel Recovery.
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