Ron Keesing

Ron Keesing is the Senior Vice President for Technology Integration at Leidos, where he is responsible for the development and delivery of advanced technology aligned with Enterprise strategy in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), cybersecurity, software, and digital engineering.

Ron has been conducting and directing research and development and technology transition for over 25 years. He has done pioneering work on research programs addressing many of the nation’s toughest problems, from forecasting complex events like cyber threats and political instability from sparse data to discovering new potential cancer treatments by extracting and aligning knowledge embedded within massive datasets and research publications to creating the first generation of autonomous systems for spacecraft command and control. He has led the successful transition of many research technologies into operational programs within DoD and Intelligence Community.

He is a Leidos Technical Fellow and author of papers and patents in diverse subfields of computer science and artificial intelligence. He serves in an advisory capacity for external organizations including the Center for New American Security, where he is a member of the AI Governance Forum. His current research is focused on methods to improve resilience, security, assurance, and user trust in AI, particularly with regard to emerging generative AI technologies.

Ron holds a B.S. and M.S. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland.