Ricky Orndorff is Chief Mission Architect for Systems and Data at Clarity Innovations, where he has spent over a decade designing and modernizing software for multiple agencies, including the Department of the Air Force. His background spans software engineering and solutions architecture, with hands-on work modernizing Air Force command-and-control systems and delivering across multi-classification and disconnected edge environments. He has led and supported a wide range of technical capture and proposal efforts, connecting emerging capabilities to mission outcomes. He brings the practitioner's view of what it takes to field and sustain automated vulnerability research as part of an enterprise security program.