Aaron Lippold
Computer scientist, technical adviser, Forge.mil

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Computer Scientist and Senior Technical Adviser for the Forge.mil project, the Chief Information Assurance Executive, the Chief Information Officer and the Chief Technology Officer of the Defense Information Systems Agency on issues of Security, Information Assurance and Open Technology. Aaron is very proud to be one of the formative Community Managers for the Forge.mil Project with an active community of over 10,000 users and growing.

Mr. Lippold is an active proponent and driving force for Open Technology and Open Methods for DISA and the Department of Defense.

Prior to joining DISA, Mr. Lippold was a Research Programmer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications working on High Performance Computing projects running Linux RedHat on IBM platforms.

Aaron Lippold is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a degree in Computer Science, Mathematics and English Interpretive Theory.