Jane Rathbun is departing federal government after more than three decades in national security-focused roles. She began federal service in 1994 with the Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces and, aside from a 2003–2005 role at NASA implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning system, has spent her career with the Department of Defense. Rathbun served as deputy assistant secretary for information warfare and chief technology officer before becoming Navy CIO in 2023. Rathbun worked to transform the Navy into a data-centric organization, enable secure data integration to leverage artificial intelligence, collaborate with the Army on analytics, and partner with industry and academia while reducing bureaucracy.
Rathbun first began her tenure in federal service in 1994 with the Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces. Except for a brief stint as a change management specialist at NASA from 2003 through 2005 - where she helped implement the space agency's Enterprise Resource Planning system - Rathbun has spent the entirety of her federal career with the Department of Defense.
She added that the military branch is also looking to securely integrate data to better leverage new technologies, such as artificial intelligence. "What we're hoping to do very shortly is move to a strategically architected and curated set of capabilities that we invest in," Rathbun said at the time. "I still want 1,000 flowers to bloom, but not in 1,000 pots. So I'm looking at how I get these capabilities in a couple of pots to start off with."
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