2020 WEST: Premier Sea Services Event San Diego

Aaron Weis
Chief Information Officer
U.S. Department of Navy


Aaron Weis came to the Department of Defense in 2018, where he was the Senior Advisor to the DoD CIO. Aaron was subsequently named Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy for Information Management and Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer in September, 2019. He is the Principal Staff Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy for information management, digital, data and cyber strategy. In this role, he has led the reinvigoration of the DON Information Environment through the implementation of the Information Superiority Vision. Under his leadership, the DON has undertaken a broad Modernization effort, including deploying M365 to more than 650,000 sailors, marines and civilians, modernizing the DON networks and driving Innovation through emerging technologies including 5G and LEO satcom. The DON CIO leads a community of more than 50,000 cyber and IT professionals across the Navy and Marine Corps. Previously, Aaron led IT at Axalta Coating Systems, the former DuPont Performance Coatings business, created in 2013. Aaron came to Axalta in 2015 with the mission to transform the legacy IT organization and infrastructure into a platform ready for Axalta’s business to grow on. At Axalta, he has transformed the IT systems by moving completely to cloud delivered infrastructure, consolidating ERP systems and moving support to offshore captive centers in India. With the infrastructure and organization transformation complete, focus now turned to the implementation of SAP S/4 HANA across the enterprise to support the business transformation priorities of Axalta. Before moving to Axalta, Aaron was the business unit leader for Boston-based Sensata Technologies’ Magnetic Speed & Position business, which was acquired from Honeywell in 2010. As business manager and integration leader, Aaron successfully integrated the $200 million P&L into Sensata’s global automotive business and moved three acquired automotive production plants in Asia and Europe to Sensata’s centralized facilities in China, as well as creating a 10-year strategic plan for the business that grows revenues to nearly $500 million. Aaron came to Sensata as the company’s first CIO as a newly independent company. He started at Sensata in October of 2006 at the former division of Texas Instruments, now Sensata Technologies, a $3.0 billion leader in the world of Sensors, Electrical Protection and Controls. Aaron built a global IT team with the charter to develop and deploy a technology infrastructure and vision for the newly independent company. Previously, Aaron was Vice President of Business Applications & Enabling Technology for Tyco International. At Tyco, he was responsible for the coordination, direction, and strategy of the business application landscape for both corporate and cross-business unit applications. He also was the leader for IT Vendor Management across the $40 billion enterprise. Before joining Tyco, he was the Director of Operations and Enabling Services for Siemens Corporation where he was responsible for building and operating corporate services for use among 15 U.S. companies and several regions in North and South America. 1/30/2023 Aaron holds and MBA from Villanova University and a BA from University of Illinois.

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