Bradley Zogopoulos
Deputy Director
Bio:
Bradley “Brad” Zogopoulos is Deputy Director, Combatant Command Programs at BigBear.ai and a U.S. Navy veteran with experience spanning military operations, intelligence analysis, software delivery, and defense technology. He leads programs and teams focused on turning operational needs into practical capabilities, with an emphasis on integration, disciplined execution, and customer outcomes.
His work includes ConductorOS, a software orchestration layer that connects sensors, AI models, computing platforms, applications, and command-and-control systems from different vendors. He also supports Arcas, BigBear.ai’s maritime domain awareness capability, which combines analytics and computer vision to help operators identify and assess maritime activity. His experience includes integrating AI and sensor data into existing operator workflows and supporting deployments across maritime and tactical edge environments.
Before joining BigBear.ai, Brad served as a Navy Cryptologic Technician Technical, including as an electronic warfare supervisor aboard USS Mustin (DDG-89) in Yokosuka, Japan. His subsequent work included intelligence analysis, training, testing, and user engagement supporting military and intelligence missions.
Brad brings an operational and program leadership perspective to the challenges of deploying, updating, and sustaining AI across distributed systems. He holds a Project Management Professional certification and has presented at WEST, the AFCEA North Carolina Innovation Summit, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory.