Josh Lospinoso

Industry Leadership

After more than a dozen years as a captain and cyber officer in the Army leading teams to build dozens of elite hacking tools for the National Security Agency’s Tailored Access Operations, Army Cyber Command, and the Cyber National Mission Force, Josh Lospinoso in 2018 founded Shift5, which bills itself as the “observability platform for onboard operational technology.” Now as CEO, Lospinoso has positioned Shift5 as one of the up-and-coming defense innovation contractors serving the U.S. military’s most pressing emerging tech needs. Prior to Shift5, he co-founded RedOwl Analytics, an insider threat detection platform acquired by Raytheon in 2017. Last year, speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he advocated for the DOD’s need to put more resources behind the adoption of AI, arguing if the nation doesn’t “retain its AI dominance and empower its major weapon systems with AI-enabled technology, we face the real prospect that an adversary could surpass us.”