David Spirk

Dave is a Senior Counselor at Palantir, where he focuses on assisting across the US Government, Allied/Partner Governments, and Commercial business. Dave is a Governing Board Member at Performance Drone Works (PDW) and Andromeda by Valkyrie AI. He serves as a Senior Advisor to US Innovative Technologies, Beowulf AI, and Fulcrum Autonomy. He is an Advisory Board Member at Fortem Technologies and Colossal Biosciences. Previously, he served as the Department of Defense’s (DOD) first-Chief Data Officer (CDO) reporting directly to the Deputy Secretary of Defense. In this role, he stood up DOD’s Chief Data Office and instilled a strong focus on warfighter needs, data governance, and a data ready workforce to inspire a data-driven culture across the department. He developed the DOD’s first Data Strategy, Data Decrees, and Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control Data (CJADC2) Implementation Plan. Immediately prior, Dave was the United States Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM) first-CDO and the Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the United States’ Special Forces. In this role as a direct report to the USSOCOM Commander, he was responsible for the creation of a data-driven decision-making culture while leading the integration of data-driven technologies across all US Special Operations Forces (SOF). Dave was a member of the Senior Executive Service in the Intelligence Community and also served on active duty in the United States Marine Corps.