Founder and Executive Director
Ronald P. Reck is a leader in artificial intelligence (AI), policy analysis, and enterprise AI implementation, with a strong focus on U.S. competitiveness and technology-driven economic growth. He is the founder of the American Association for Business AI (AABA), a professional organization dedicated to advancing cost-effective, vendor-agnostic AI solutions that prioritize American interests.
Professional Background
Projects & Contributions
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AI and NLP Expertise
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Project Orion
Founding member and drove development of an AI-based automated vector matching system for the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), optimizing data labeling and intelligence workflows to identify and ensure “fair and equitable” pricing across all DoD procurement.
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AI for Legal & Business Automation:
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Project Orion
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Government Cost Optimization Dashboard
Designed a Docker Swarm-based AI-driven cost tracking dashboardfor the U.S. Department of Education, analyzing an 18k AWS daily expenditure to enhance cost efficiency.
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AI for Big Pharma
Spearheaded initiatives in automated transcription, knowledge graph generation, and legal document processing, integrating AI for contract intelligence and decision support.
Reference implementation and design semantic modeling of controlled vocabularies for Pharmacovigilance and ML for Drug Discovery pipelines.
Ronald P. Reck’s work is mission-driven, emphasizing AI’s role in strengthening U.S. economic and technological leadership. His focus is on practical AI solutions, reducing dependency on proprietary models, and ensuring AI accessibility for businesses of all sizes.
Reck has extensive experience in natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs), and AI-driven automation, particularly in business intelligence, policy analysis, and knowledge management.
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Government & Enterprise AI Implementation
He has led AI-driven initiatives for U.S. government agencies, defense-related AI projects, and private sector applications, focusing on scalable, transparent, and high-impact solutions.
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AI Policy & Governance
Founding member and drove development of an AI-based automated vector matching system for the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), optimizing data labeling and intelligence workflows to identify and ensure “fair and equitable” pricing across all DoD procurement.
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AI for Legal & Business Automation:
As an invited expert in the W3C, Reck has contributed to AI and data governance standards, particularly within the Cognitive AI Community Group (CogAI) and GRDDL (Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages), ensuring structured data interoperability for AI applications.
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Government Cost Optimization Dashboard
Designed a Docker Swarm-based AI-driven cost tracking dashboardfor the U.S. Department of Education, analyzing an 18k AWS daily expenditure to enhance cost efficiency.
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AI for Big Pharma
Spearheaded initiatives in automated transcription, knowledge graph generation, and legal document processing, integrating AI for contract intelligence and decision support.
Reference implementation and design semantic modeling of controlled vocabularies for Pharmacovigilance and ML for Drug Discovery pipelines.
Reck founded AABA as a professional association focused on AI policy, advocacy, and real-world AI applications in business. The organization’s goals include:
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Influencing AI policy to ensure a competitive, innovation-friendly regulatory environment for American businesses.
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Providing AI reference implementations that are cost-effective, vendor agnostic, and scalable.
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Creating an AI policy analysis tool to guide business leaders and policymakers in making informed AI-driven decisions.
Core Philosophy & Mission
American Association for Business AI (AABA)
Ronald P. Reck’s work is mission-driven, emphasizing AI’s role in strengthening U.S. economic and technological leadership. His focus is on practical AI solutions, reducing dependency on proprietary models, and ensuring AI accessibility for businesses of all sizes.
• Cloud Security & Content Delivery Network (CDN) Services Providers: Akamai Technologies
• Telecommunications Firms: Sprint, Cable & Wireless; WinStar; MCI
• Banking and Mortgage Lenders: Fannie Mae – Compliance & Ethics Department
• Department of Defense Contractors: Akamai Technologies; Northrop-Grumman; Shared Spectrum
• 8(a) Small Businesses: VeriSolv Technologies; Westover Consultants
Founder and Program Director
Results-oriented project management professional (PMP) and government contract compliance professional with expertise in planning and project management, business analysis, and negotiation of contract terms and conditions to limit risk exposure. My mission is to identify and assess clients’ compliance risks, develop mitigation strategies that are in-scale with existing capabilities, and facilitate a rapid roll-out of compliance procedures across the enterprise. Potential clients include technology firms and commercial businesses seeking contracts with state and federal governments.
• Compliance strategies in-scale with existing capabilities
• Rapid roll-out of enterprise compliance plans
• Policies and procedures for new business initiatives and government requirements
• Internal and government-initiated audits
• Government bids and proposals
• Evaluation of requests for proposal (RFPs) for business risk
• Analysis of government contract terms and conditions
• Knowledge of both state and federal contracting
Industries
Consulting Capabilities
Director of Strategic Engagement & Communications
Kara brings over two decades of experience in strategic communications, membership engagement, and multi-platform campaigns across higher education and nonprofit sectors. As Communications Coordinator for the Big Ten Academic Alliance, she leads messaging and storytelling initiatives that span some of the nation’s top research universities.
Her background includes leadership roles at the National Council of Teachers of English and consulting for professional development firms, where she specialized in membership strategy and public engagement. Kara’s deep expertise in writing, public relations, and community outreach enhances AABA’s ability to shape national conversations around AI, education, and American competitiveness.
She is known for outcome-driven strategies and values-driven communication.
Team Members
Ronald Reck
Founder
Ronald P. Reck is a leader in artificial intelligence (AI), policy analysis, and enterprise AI implementation, with a strong focus on U.S. competitiveness and technology-driven economic growth. He is the founder of the American Association for Business AI (AABA), a professional organization dedicated to advancing cost-effective, vendor-agnostic AI solutions that prioritize American interests.
Sean Scanlon
Strategic Advisor
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Ashley Amerson
Program Director
Results-oriented project management professional (PMP) and government contract compliance professional with expertise in planning and project management, business analysis, and negotiation of contract terms and conditions to limit risk exposure. My mission is to identify and assess clients’ compliance risks, develop mitigation strategies that are in-scale with existing capabilities, and facilitate a rapid roll-out of compliance procedures across the enterprise. Potential clients include technology firms and commercial businesses seeking contracts with state and federal governments.
Mike Colbert
AI Architect
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Kara Scanlon McKinn
Director of Communications
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Len Goodman
Treasurer
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