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HEIDELBERG, Germany - Nearly three dozen U.S. Army warrant officers from units throughout Europe filled a small conference room at the Hilton Hotel in Heidelberg, Germany, Feb. 19th and 20th, to collaborate and network during a warrant officer professional development symposium.
The professional development event aimed to improve and expand core communications capabilities, instruct lessons learned, and share best practices. The event provided briefings from speakers who are up to speed on the latest information of how the Army is adapting to the changing information technology landscape with the integration of artificial intelligence and data management and analytics. The event was also used as a think tank style atmosphere to get some savvy minds into the same room as a collective team of thought leaders from across Europe and Africa in the information technology, communications and data management professions, according to Chief Warrant Officer 3 Randy Nkoulou, the WOPD coordinator and data operations technician with the 21st Theater Sustainment Command .
The event was broken into two days. The first day focused on understanding near-future artificial intelligence applications and emerging technologies. Some of the briefing topics that covered the future of U.S. Army contracted artificial intelligence included an in-depth brief of the function and use of the U.S. Army Europe and Africa’s software factory and discussions on how generative AI works and how to communicate with AI platforms within the parameters of the U.S. Army network.
The event’s second day focused on data integration, management, and analysis. Briefers spent the day tying the importance of good data management strategies to the better use of AI in the workplace. According to Capt. Derrick Kozlowski, the chief data officer for the U.S. Army Signal School and the office of the chief of signal, the more accurate data combined with good data management practices, the better a unit can harness the data for integration with AI or other work practices to make communication more efficient and effective.
“I think the discussions we generated during the professional development helped us all understand what’s going on in the theater and this event provided us the opportunity to put our heads together to understand how to fix theater problems,” said Nkoulou, regarding the effectiveness of this WOPD.
As the WOPD event concludes and warrant officers nestle back into their assignments across Europe and Africa, the 21st TSC communications team is starting the planning phase for next year’s event. This event was Nkoulou’s last one before his permanent change of station to his next assignment. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jonathan Davis will be taking over organizing and executing the professional developments. According to Davis, with his background, he feels he can bring his experiences working at the strategic level. Davis is working on enterprise-wide communications solutions, and he feels he will be able to place his unique knowledge set of modern work, interoperability, and security.
By the conclusion of the WOPD event, some positive tangible effects were realized. “We found readily available AWS Wickr licenses to enhance secure communications on personal devices. We also learned we can procure advanced CISCO router capabilities to prioritize mission-critical data feeds and through discussions, we worked on a way to establish a theater-wide data lake. Processes to contribute to Army Futures Command and DISA projects were clarified for the attendees as well,” said Lt. Col. Holly Glisson, the 21st TSC’s G6.
| Date Taken: | 02.20.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 04.02.2025 09:37 |
| Story ID: | 494352 |
| Location: | HEIDELBERG, DE |
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