Monthly meetings
April 2026 – “Beyond Generative AI - No-Code ML for the Warfighter”
Introduction
- Brigid O’Hearn – Principal Engineer, SEI
Presenters
- Brent VanderMeide - the Directorate Chief Software Officer for AFMC AFSC/SWT and a seasoned Air Force software leader with prior leadership experience in the 517th Software Engineering Squadron at Hill Air Force Base.
- Scott Vigil - Chief Software Officer for AFMC’s 309 SWEG and an experienced Air Force engineer with more than 20 years of software experience, including leadership in Personnel Recovery Command and Control at Hill Air Force Base.
- Christopher Stone - an AI/ML Solutions Architect focused on mission-driven innovation, with broad experience in systems integration and software engineering solutions for the warfighter.
- Closing Remarks:
- Rob Vietmeyer, DoW CIO Chief Software Officer
2026 April CoP - Beyond Generative AI - No-Code ML for the Warfighter
March 2026 – “Can AI Accelerate DoW Capabilities”
Introduction
- Dr. Isaac Faber, Hasan Yasar, Trac Bannon
Presenters
- Dr. Isaac Faber, Data Scientist, Technology Leader, and Combat Veteran
- Roundtable Discussion: Can AI Accelerate DoW Capabilities?
- Moderator: Scott Padgett, Artificial Intelligence – Technology Lead, OUSD R&E
- Dr. Isaac Faber, ret. US Army COL, Chief Data Scientist
- Trac Bannon, Senior Technical Advisor & Software Architect, AI4SDLC
- Hasan Yasar, Director Continuous Deployment of Capability group, SSD Division, SEI
- George Lamb, Director, Director Information Network Capabilities
- Closing Remarks:
- George Lamb
January 2026 – “Ask the DoW CIO Anything”
Presenters
- Rob Vietmeyer, OSD DoW CIO, Chief Software Officer 2025, a Year in Review DoDI 8430, Accelerated Mission Software Development
- George Lamb, OSD DoW, Director, Information Network Capabilities
- Aravind Raman, cATO Champion DevSecOps, Agile System Engineering, and continuous Authorization to Operate (cATO)
- Joel Cassell, OSD DoW CIO, Deputy Director Information Network Capabilities & SAP IT The Future of Special Access Programs (SAP)
- Les Benito, OSD DoW CIO, Global Compute Lead Cloud, JWCC, FinOps
September 2025 - "A-10 Thunderbolt II Agile Software Development Story"
Introduction
- Sean Brady, OSD (A&S) Director, Software Acquisition & Cadre Deputy Director for Joint Interoperability
Presenters
- Ladd Spackman – Workload Team Leader – 309 SWEG
- David R. Webb – Process Analyst / Agile Coach – ASRC/NetCentric
August 2025 - "Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) - IT Lessons Learned – Path to Zero Trust"
- The Presenter has elected not to provide the slides and recording to our external audience.
- If you should have any questions contact osd.mc-alex.dod-cio.mbx.devsecops@mail.mil
July 2025 - "Ask the DoD CIO IE Leadership Anything"
Introduction
- George Lamb, OSD DoD CIO, Director, DoD Information Network Capabilities
Presenters
- Ana Kreiensieck, OSD DoD CIO, Software Modernization Lead
- Rob Vietmeyer, OSD DoD CIO, Chief Software Officer
June 2025 - "Software Modernization Implementation Plan Introduction"
Introduction
- Ana Kreiensieck, Software Modernization Lead, OSD DoD CIO
Presenters
- Goal 1: Accelerate the DoD Enterprise Cloud
- Task 1.2 Establish a FinOps Foundation for Smarter Use of Cloud
- Les Benito, DoD Cloud Lead, OSD DoD CIO
- Jonathan Tame, DoD Cloud Principal Advisor, OSD DoD CIO
- Task 1.2 Establish a FinOps Foundation for Smarter Use of Cloud
- Goal 2: Establish Department-wide Software Factory Ecosystem
- Dave Lago, DoD Olympus Product Manager, DISA J9 Hosting & Compute
- Task 2.3 Enable Software Interoperability through APIs
- Allan Dianic, Director Software Engineering, OSD OUSD (R&E)
- Tim Stark, Software Developer and Data Scientist, OSD OUSD (R&E)
- Task 2.6 Prepare Software Factories for AI and Software-Based Automation
- Trac Bannon, Senior Technical Advisor & Software Architect, DoD CIO
- Goal 3: Develop and Track Software Engineering Talent
- Subtask 3.8.1 Increase Department Participation Coding Software Engineering Work Roles and 3.8.2 Enter Software Engineering Work Roles in Personnel Systems of Record
- Robert Larino, Director for Policy and Workforce OSD OUSD (R&E)
- Tymese Bostick, OSD OUSD R&E
- Subtask 3.8.1 Increase Department Participation Coding Software Engineering Work Roles and 3.8.2 Enter Software Engineering Work Roles in Personnel Systems of Record
April 2025 - "Artificial Intelligence Sub-Path"
Opening Remarks
- Sean Brady, Office of the Secretary of Defense Deputy Director, Joint Interoperability and Senior Lead for Software Modernization, within the Directorate for Acquisition
Integration & Interoperability (AI2)
Presentation
- Eric Obergfell, MITRE, Systems Engineer, ODS A&S, USAFE A2
Open Discussion
- DevSecOps Community
March 2025 - "The "Share it" act"
Opening Remarks
- Rob Vietmeyer, DoD CIO Chief Software Officer
Presentation
- Dan Risacher, DoD CIO Developer Advocate
- Paul de Naray, DoD CIO Principal Engineer
Open Discussion
- Special Guests
February 2025 - "The State of the DevSecOps Report"
Introductions
- George Lamb, Director, Cloud & Software Modernization, DoD CIO Information Enterprise
- Brigid O’Hearn, Principal Engineer, Software Engineering Institute
- Nanette Brown, Senior of the Technical Staff, Software Engineering Institute
- Col Trauna “TJ” James, Military Deputy Director of the Software Directorate at the Air Force Sustainment Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Matt Lince, Chief Information Officer, USMEPCOM, Great Lakes, Illinois