General Dynamics CTO achieves company improvements in record time Under Wade Schott’s leadership, General Dynamics in 2003 became the fourth company to reach the highest level of the Software Engineering Institute‘s Capability Maturity Model — and it did so in less than a year, when the process can take three times as long.“Reaching this level is key in getting government contracts,” says Schott, CTO of the company’s Advanced Information Systems group, “but from a philosophical standpoint, it’s also how you challenge yourself and improve your quality.”Schott also serves as the leader of the defense contractor’s Technology Council, through which he speaks to the company’s customers in the U.S. intelligence community about the global realities of the 21st century, as well as helping other divisions move from platform-centric to network-centric computing. Security