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William Karavites currently serves as the Chief AI/ML and Cloud Architect for Lockheed Martin’s Rotary and Mission Systems Chief Data and Analytics Organization (RMS CDAO). In this position, he assists the org in their design of AI/ML systems, workflows and overall cloud strategy. If he’s not leading development at the RMS CDAO, he’s assisting numerous other groups at Lockheed Martin in their cloud journey and consulting groups on general systems architecture. In addition to this, he is also leading the pilot of NVIDIA Omniverse at Lockheed, is assisting the Cognitive Mission Manager IRAD in the setup of their dedicated AI/ML Development Lab and occasionally annoys their InfoSec team. He’s a father, volunteer firefighter, avid gardener and occasional bad karaoke singer.