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Robert J. Carey is the president of Cloudera Government Solutions. Carey served as the Department of Defense Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer from in October 2010. From November 2006 to September 2010, he served as served as the fifth Department of the Navy (DON) Chief Information Officer (CIO). Carey's federal service began in October 1982 with the U.S. Army at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, where he worked as a test director evaluating small arms, automatic weapons, and ammunition. He began his service with the Department of the Navy in February 1985 with the Naval Sea Systems Command. He served in a variety of engineering and program management leadership positions in the Anti-Submarine/Undersea Warfare domain. He earned a BS in Engineering in 1982 from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Engineering Management from the George Washington University in 1995.