Wade Allen, VP for Defense at Applied Information Sciences

Wade Allen is the vice president for defense at IT consulting firm Applied Information Sciences and a Potomac Officers Club member. He has been holding his current leadership role since October 2020.

Allen works with the company’s Department of Defense clients to help them achieve their mission requirements. He also supports Pentagon customers’ efforts to adopt and migrate to the cloud.

The AIS vice president was an account executive for the company before assuming his current leadership role. He started working at the company in 2017 as a cloud strategy adviser, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Allen worked at defense contractor Permuta Technologies for almost 14 years before joining AIS. The positions that he held at the company include manager of DefenseReady Cloud Services, senior director of sustainment operations and enterprise solutions architect.

The industry veteran started his career in the private industry in 2001. He also served as an acquisition manager for the White House Communications Agency and a certified contracting officer at the U.S. Air Force, a role that he held from 1989.

The AIS executive holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix and a bachelor’s degree in business from National Louis University.

AIS offers cloud adoption, applications modernization and data intelligence to clients in the federal government, defense, energy, financial services and health and life sciences sectors. The company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and has offices in the Eastern United States and in India.