Colin Carroll leads the Federal and Defense Business at Applied Intuition. Prior to Applied, Colin was the Chief Operations Officer at the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), the organization charged with transforming the US military through AI and automation.

Colin graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a degree in Aerospace Engineering, and was commissioned into the United States Marine Corps as a Ground Intelligence Officer. He spent six years on active duty leading a Reconnaissance Platoon and Company, and served as the staff intelligence officer for a Marine Corps Infantry Battalion. After leaving active duty, Colin graduated from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and joined the Department of Defense as a federal civilian, where he spent five years working on hard intelligence and information problems in the Pacific theater. In 2017 he became a plank member of Project Maven, the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security’s premier Artificial Intelligence capability development project, where he acted as the Deputy for Engineering and Integration. He transitioned to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab and was the technical project manager for a major program at the JAIC called Smart Sensor, a high endurance autonomous Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance platform. In 2020 he went back to federal service as a High Quality Expert and served as the JAIC’s inaugural Chief Operations Officer.