Nick Weir PhD

VP of Mission Engineering

Nick leads the Mission Engineering team at Legion which is responsible for all production deployments of Legion's products across government classified and unclassified environments, as well as commercial environments. Nick also leads Legion's Centurion line of edge-deployable products for DDIL environments. Prior to Legion, Nick led the AWS US Federal Professional Services team for Computer Vision. Nick previously held Data Scientist Roles at AWS and In-Q-Tel, as well as serving on the Advisory Board for the non-profit SpaceNet LLC partnership.

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The Forward Deployed Engineering Model Is Backward

Does a vendor's forward deployed engineering model build customer-owned capability or permanent dependency? In defense software, a growing FDE team often signals a product that never matured, not a strength.
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