Navy’s Nicole Otero on secure, scalable agentic automation

Nicole Otero discusses the Department of the Navy’s transition from isolated automation pilots to an enterprise-scale, mission-driven execution. They are building an enterprise-level cloud environment to support scalable automations. Otero also emphasizes the importance of governance, security, and transparency. For example, the agency uses NIST controls and a developer standard for governance. Looking ahead, Otero sees the greatest impact of agentic automation in financial management, particularly in achieving a clean audit by 2028, through the modernization and augmentation of their ERP system with agentic and AI technologies.