DLA Deputy CFO Shawn Lennon on moving from inefficient to innovative

Sean Lennon, Deputy Director and Deputy CFO for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), discussed the culture shift required to integrate and scale automation initiatives within government agencies, emphasizing the need to redesign processes for better outcomes rather than just digitizing existing inefficient methods. Lennon highlighted the DLA’s recent achievement of a clean audit opinion for its transaction fund, a first in the agency’s history, and detailed how advanced automation and AI are being used to streamline document retrieval and reconciliation, ultimately supporting the Department of Defense’s goal of clean audit opinions.