Meridith Fonseca

Meridith Fonseca is the Chief Data Officer for US Army Pacific (USARPAC). As CDO, she is responsible for transforming USARPAC into an organization that effectively operationalizes data and enables key leader decision-making at the speed and scale necessary to outpace adversaries during competition, crisis, and conflict. ​Within the CDO she leads three divisions: Data Governance, Data Management, and Analytics.

Fonseca was formerly Research and Development (R&D) Director for the US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) Force Modernization Center (UFMC) at Fort Bragg, NC. There she led a directorate comprised of Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Command Data Modernization. She developed strategies to resource low to mid Technology Readiness Level (TRL) solutions for multi-domain future Army Special Operations capabilities. During her government civilian tenure she has held the following Department of Army positions: Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Commodity Chief at the Army Special Operations Aviation Command (ARSOAC); Force Modernization Supervisor for C4i, Intelligence Systems and Sensors, Robotics and Military Information Support Operations (MISO) at the 1st Special Forces Command (1st SFC); Aviation Requirements Specialist for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (160th SOAR); and Requirements and Acquisition Specialist for MISO at the USASOC Combat Developments Division (CDD). She has served in the Army since 2003, initially enlisted and now a commissioned reserve officer.

Fonseca earned her B.S. in Environmental Science from the San Francisco State University and her MBA from Colorado Technical University. She also completed the Senior Executive Fellowship, Leadership at Harvard University.