On May 9, 2023, BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. announced Norm Laudermilch as the new Chief Operating Officer of the Company, effective May 8, 2023. Mr. Laudermilch, age 56, joins BigBear.ai with more than 30 years of technical and executive-level experience, and has served in a number of roles including Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Information Security Officer. Prior to joining BigBear.ai, Mr. Laudermilch was most recently with LookingGlass Cyber Solutions as the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Cyber Officer and has experience in both startup and Fortune 50 environments, across federal and commercial markets.

Laudermilch holds the distinction of being a co-founder of the Internet Service Provider Security Working Group (ISPSEC) and has served on the board of directors for industry group AMTSO, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization. He also served as global director of information security at UUNET, the world's first internet service provider. He has held the highest level of national security clearances and has acted as an advisor to the FBI Cyber Crime Division, assisting with several computer crime investigations.

He has also made industry contributions in a variety of areas including data science (AI/ML), information security, data center design and operations, and cloud computing. He's been published in over 100 newspapers and magazines, appeared on over a dozen television news programs, and has been interviewed on local and national radio.