LTC Kyle Luoma

LTC Kyle Luoma is an operations research and systems analyst officer and a researcher with the Army Cyber Institute.

He commissioned as an Aviation officer in 2005 through the Cal State Fullerton Army ROTC program after graduating from Biola University with a B.S. in business management. He later earned an M.S. in manpower systems analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School in 2017, a second B.S. in computer science in 2018, and is nearing completion of a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering.

LTC Luoma has served across three Army branches and functional areas. As a UH-60–qualified aviator, he held multiple assignments in Aviation before transitioning in 2013 to the Force Management (FA50) functional area. During that time, he supported the Army’s aviation restructuring initiative, coordinated aviation munitions resourcing, shaped equipping and organizational requirements for the Department of Defense’s Arctic strategy, and contributed to the initial organizational design of Army Futures Command.

Beginning in 2018, he served as an operations research and systems analyst (FA49) in the Army G-1, where he assisted with requirements development and data integration efforts for the IPPS-A program. Since 2024, LTC Luoma has served at the Army Cyber Institute as a computer science researcher on the Data and Decision Sciences team. His current research focuses on machine-learning and artificial-intelligence applications for database interaction and data engineering.