Michael Cole

Industry Leadership of the Year

Michael Cole, the civilian chief technology officer at General Dynamics Information Technology, has expanded his expertise to help state governments — including Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia — by bringing federal sector discipline and innovation to make state government IT operations more efficient and productive. Through his “art of the possible” approach and GDIT’s digital accelerators, Cole is helping state governments speed up innovation and reduce the time needed to deliver services to citizens. With a focused consultative approach and expertise in cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing and cyber resilience, Cole is transforming GDIT’s IT business to enhance the state government IT landscape through innovation.