>Note that some of that was as a Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt doing Enterprise projects
>(I hate every single bit of terminology in that entire godforsaken sentence.
Checks out. :).
A super convenient way to do cool stuff like that in the DoD is to do it for the most senior Flag you can get interested in it directly. Projects at SECDEF or SECNAV offices work...differently than outside, as there isn't really an 'up' left for most of the folks involved (in my experience - most are extremely focused on getting the job done and/or the geo-strategic problems).