Brian Womble spent the first half of his career working in the telecommunications industry centered in Dallas, Texas, as a system developer. After relocating to northern Virginia, he worked as a Systems Architect for Cisco Systems on VoIP programs. Mr. Womble then joined Lockheed Martin to work on open architecture efforts within the US Navy Submarine Acoustic Rapid COTS Insertion (ARCI) program. Mr. Womble joined the Navy civilian workforce, and is now leading efforts to transition the Naval Enterprise to OSA and open business models. He can be reached at brian.womble@navy.mil.