Lamont Copeland
Industry Leadership
Lamont Copeland is managing director of federal solutions architecture for Verizon. In this role, Copeland is a vocal leader in the defense space, partnering with the U.S. military to provide cutting-edge technology to deter emerging threats in the digital age, primarily with Verizon’s 5G communications infrastructure. “There are quite a few things associated with the 5G network that you can put on top of it to make sure that we’re protecting and also supporting the warfighter and the warfighter missions,” Copeland recently said, “things like [augmented reality and virtual reality], the things we’re doing digital twinning, to make sure that we’re able to deliver the mission outcomes closer to the edge.”