DOE’s Bridget Carper Arnone: Trust Is the Foundation for AI at Scale

When Bridget Carper Arnone joined the Department of Energy (DOE) in 2023, she remembers wondering why some processes still moved between paper and legacy systems when better technology was already available. Then, technology could often feel like an add-on. Today, “technology is part of the mission infrastructure,” said Arnone, DOE’s deputy chief information officer for Architecture, Engineering, Technology, and Innovation, chief data officer, and senior agency official for Geospatial Informatio