David Birken

David leads our Digital Modernization and Experience business. His team of nearly 2,000 multidisciplinary experts provide technology, digital engagement, and advanced data and analytics services, tools, and platforms —all backed by deep domain expertise—to U.S. federal agencies to help them meet evolving citizen, workforce, and mission needs.

Considered one of the most trusted and reliable digital modernization and experience providers to U.S. federal agencies, David’s team provides premier capabilities and platform solutions including IT modernization and digital experience, data and analytics, cloud and open source, AI/GenAI, and more.

David brings more than 20 years of experience in complex program management, implementation support, and outcome-focused transformation. Prior to this role, David managed our growing cybersecurity business where his team brought integrated and advanced data science, analysis and modernization services, as well as zero trust architecture, to federal civilian agencies. He also managed the company’s resiliency, housing, and workforce development business. Additionally, David previously oversaw our disaster recovery projects across the continental U.S., which experienced rapid growth, and was responsible for the entire lifecycle of project management, technology implementation, client satisfaction and recovery outcomes.

David has also led our learning business areas and has experience in data analysis, statistical and formal modeling, game theory, evaluation, organizational assessment, multisector workforce planning, and process and performance improvement in the federal sector. He has a background in constructing methodologies and systems for conducting meta-analyses of both quantitative and qualitative data, executing data collection and statistical analysis, and interpreting data set results into actionable steps for improvement.