Ben Van Roo PhD

CEO and Founder

Ben is the CEO/Co-Founder of Legion. Ben served as the EVP of National Security at Primer AI, VP of Data Science at Chegg, and was a Researcher at RAND working with the DOD. Ben has spent his career building technology companies serving the Public and the Private sector.

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The Denied Column: Military AI for Degraded and Denied Operations

Acetate, cloud, and edge AI ran side by side at Project Convergence. The denied column, the one the brochures skip, is where the war gets decided. Four actions leaders can take before doctrine hardens.
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Earning a Seat on the Staff

The staff has absorbed new machines for 160 years, each by meeting its standards for coordinated work. What it takes for AI to earn a seat: the five requirements, the three architectural commitments, and how leaders should evaluat
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