George Lamb

Mr. George Lamb is the director for DoD cloud and software modernization in the DoD Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) Information Enterprise Office. In that role, he leads the team responsible for the DoD Software Modernization Strategy and associated implementation plan as well as the action officer working group coordinating the strategy across the department. Lamb joined the DoD CIO two years ago after a career working across the federal and civilian technical communities. Lamb was a global staff engineer at Dell, advising clients on open networks across the U.S. northeast and the federal sectors. He also was the federal systems engineer at Nicira, a Silicon Valley startup that invented network virtualization, was acquired by VMware, and became the NSX product line. Prior to that, he spent 10 years at IBM as a chief architect and technical systems manager for the U.S. intelligence community.

Lamb earned a Bachelor of Science in Pure Mathematics and Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Delaware. He was also an elected director of the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District.