Diné Development Corporation (DDC) is a Navajo owned family of companies delivering federal technology solutions that accelerate secure, responsible modernization. With more than two decades of advancing proven cloud adoption, data enablement, digital transformation, modern software development, and cyber security, DDC empowers its customers — from the United States Cyber Command to the United States Air Force — to strengthen efficiency, resilience, and operational advantage.
As Executive Vice President of Innovation at DDC, Dale Ward is responsible for defining the company’s long-term technology strategy. When generative AI began reshaping the enterprise landscape, his priority was to establish a foundational AI infrastructure that could scale across DDC’s entire organization.
Rather than adopting a collection of purpose-built AI tools for individual functions such as marketing, HR, or IT support, DDC set out to create a unified agent infrastructure that could support use cases across the enterprise. “I saw this as an opportunity to establish an AI operating system for agents across DDC,” recalls Ward. This search led him to StackAI.
“I was looking for a company designing systems and solutions based on the capabilities of generative AI, and that’s what led me to StackAI. The StackAI team has been amazing, and having StackAI as a platform for DDC has opened the door for us to implement agentic AI across all of our departmental functions at a corporate level.”
Dale Ward
EVP of Innovation, DDC
An Orchestration Platform for Enterprise AI Agents
StackAI aligned closely with DDC’s vision. Instead of offering narrowly scoped tools, the platform provided a flexible foundation for building and deploying agents across multiple departments and workflows. This approach resonated with DDC’s Strategic Innovations team: Joe Snell, Sr. Principal Solutions Architect, was among the first to build production workflows using StackAI.
Starting with Compliance
Snell’s first project on StackAI was an IATT, IATT-C, and/or ATO Documentation Generator. In regulated environments, assembling accreditation packages requires collecting evidence, mapping controls, and validating implementations before systems can be connected to secure networks. The process is necessary but time-consuming. But with StackAI, Snell built a workflow to handle the entire process from end to end.
His first impression of StackAI “was how easy and intuitive the tool was to use.” Working with StackAI’s built-in Auto Agents assistant to help quality-check prompts and develop logic within the workflow, he moved quickly from concept to production-grade agent, which continues to receive robust usage today.
“Building an accreditation package is tedious: researching, pulling information from different sources, mapping implementations to controls, and making sure everything lines up for approval. StackAI speeds up that entire process. It helps us understand the required controls, document implementations, and produce what we need to get authorization to connect to the network.”
Joe Snell
Sr. Principal Solutions Architect, DDC
Discovering New Use Cases Through Building
Beyond cybersecurity, DDC teams have applied StackAI to internal workflows such as proposal development, intelligence analysis, and research-heavy tasks. Many of these use cases emerged only after teams began working directly with the platform and realized its capabilities: “You don’t even know what ideas you’ll have until you start using the tool,” says Snell.
This discovery process reinforced the value of a flexible agent platform capable of supporting new workflows as needs emerged. In total, DDC is evaluating and implementing hundreds of AI use cases across the organization, all built on a shared agent infrastructure.
To date, the partnership has already yielded operational deployments in sensitive defense contexts. At Fort Bragg, StackAI is embedded in a storm basin environmental compliance application built for the Army, automating roughly 90% of assessment criteria from photos captured in the field. In parallel, DDC was selected to modernize the DFAS MOCAS mainframe, using LLMs to convert 1.5M lines of COBOL while incorporating StackAI into the approved modernization footprint. These early projects demonstrate that AI agents can drive measurable outcomes within federal infrastructure, compliance, and modernization programs.
Conclusion
While they continue to spearhead innovation, DDC’s AI-first strategy is grounded in accountability. The company is prepared to make concrete commitments to customers as automation reduces manual effort and accelerates workflows. By shifting early to StackAI, a scalable, AI-native platform, DDC has positioned itself to adapt to fundamental changes in the defense industry while helping its customers do the same.
StackAI is proud to support mission-critical automation for the nation’s most important federal agencies in partnership with DDC. Want to learn more? Get a demo here.
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