Art Fritzson

Based at Booz Allen Hamilton’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia, Executive Vice President Art Fritzson leads the Building a Culture of Innovation initiative in the firm’s Strategic Innovation Group. Previously, he supported clients in the military services and cross-defense agencies, as well as combatant commanders, providing leading-edge IT strategy and architecture, as well as implementation and deployment of a broad spectrum of customer software applications and systems for the Department of Defense. As a highly respected thought leader in the strategic application of emerging technology, Mr. Fritzson developed key parts of the strategies for enterprise-wide IT-based transformations. Frequently called upon to represent leading-edge thinking on the use of technology to effect network-centric transformation, he is regularly invited to speak at industry events and conferences such as SPACECOMM, TechNet, and the FAA Information Technology/Information Systems Security Partnership and Training Conference. Mr. Fritzson also served as president and CEO of the Booz Allen subsidiary Aestix, an e-delivery company that helped global companies realize their e-business strategies on the Internet in the 1990s. He has authored or co-authored several industry-related articles, including “War Machines”, commentary on robotic warfare for the C4ISR Journal (which serves the global network-centric warfare community), and “Military of Millennials”, which appeared in strategy+business and addressed the challenges and opportunities in the military for Gen Y. Mr. Fritzson serves on the board of the Center for Excellence in Education. Previously, he served on the executive committee and board of directors of the Association for Enterprise Integration and on the executive advisory board at the University of Maryland. Before joining Booz Allen, he served as technical director for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) systems at Northrop Grumman. He has a B.S. degree in computer science from Union College in New York.